Wong Siew Te

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Wong Siew Te
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Wong Siew Te (born May 16, 1969 in Bukit Mertajam , Penang , Malaysia ) is a Malaysian wildlife biologist and leading expert on sun bear research . He is the founder and director of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center in Sandakan in the Malaysian state of Sabah .

biography

Wong Siew Te was born on May 16, 1969 in Bukit Mertajam, Penang State. His father Wong Soon Kew earned the living for the family of eleven as a tailor. The family business "Soon Kew Tailor" in Bukit Mertajam existed from the 1950s to the mid-1980s. Wong Siew Te grew up with four older brothers and four older sisters.

From 1976 to 1982 Wong Siew Te attended Kim Sen Primary School in Bukit Mertajam and from 1982 to 1987 Jit Sin High School , also in Bukit Mertajam.

His academic training took him to the National Pingtung University of Science and Technology in Taiwan in 1989 . He completed his diploma in Animal Science & Veterinary in 1992. From 1994 Wong Siew Te studied Wildlife Biology at the University of Montana , from which he graduated in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science degree. In 2002 he obtained a Master of Science degree with an ecological study of the sun bear in the tropical rainforest of Sabah .

From 2002 to 2005 Wong Siew Te worked for the IUCN / SSC Bear Specialist Group in the management committee of the Sun Bear Expert Team .

From 2002 to 2011 he worked on his dissertation in Fish and Wildlife Biology at the University of Montana, which deals with the effects of selective timber degradation on bearded pigs in the tropical rainforests of Borneo.

In 2008 he founded the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center (BSBCC) in Sepilok, a zoological institution with the participation of the organization for ecologically sustainable projects Land Empowerment Animals People (LEAP) , the Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) and the Sabah Forestry Department (SFD) for the protection and preservation of the sun bear .

Wong Siew Te, as CEO of the BSBCC, leads the facility's business.

Publications

  • G. Veron, M. Willsch, V. Dacosta, M.-L. Patou, A. Seymour, C. Bonillo, A. Couloux, ST Wong, AP Jennings, J. Fickel, A. Wilting: The distribution of the Malay civet Viverra tangalunga (Carnivora: Viverridae) across Southeast Asia: natural or human-mediated dispersal. In: Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. Volume 170, 2014, pp. 917-932. [SCI]
  • RA Gitzen, JL Belant, JJ Millspaugh, ST Wong, AJ Hearn, J. Ross: Effective use of radiolelemetry for studying tropical carnivores. In: The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. Volume 28, 2014, pp. 67-83.
  • G. Hanya, P. Stevenson, M. v. Noordwijk, ST Wong, T. Kanamori, N. Kuze, S. Aiba, C. Chapman, C. van Schaik: Seasonality in fruit availability affects primate biomass and species richness. . In: Ecography. Volume 34, 2011, pp. 1009-1017. [SCI]
  • CC Chen, KJC Pei, MD Kuo, CM Yang, ST Wong, FG Lin, SC Kuo: A possible case of hantavirus infection in Borneo orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus) and its conservation implication. In: Journal of Medical Primatology. Volume 40, No. 1, 2010, pp. 2-5. [SCI]
  • G. Fredriksson, R. Steinmetz, ST Wong, DL Garshelis: Helarctos malayanus. In: IUCN 2009. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . Version 2009.1.
  • ST Wong: The status of Malayan sun bear in Malaysia. In: Japan Bear Network (compiler). 2006. Understanding Asian bears to secure their future. Japan Bear Network, Ibakari, Japan 145 pp. 2006, pp. 66-72.
  • ST Wong, C. Servheen, L. Ambu, A. Norhayati: Impacts of fruit production cycle Malayan sun bears and bearded pigs in lowland tropical forests of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. In: Journal of Tropical Ecology. Volume 21, 2005, pp. 627-639. [SCI]
  • A. Norhayati, LI Mila, Juliana, S., Wong, ST, Shukor, MN: Amphibian fauna of Danum Valley Conservation Area. In: Laily B. Din, Muhammad Yahya, A. Norhayati, MS Nizam, Waidi Sinun, A. Latiff (Eds.): Danum Valley Conservation Area: Physical, Biological and Social Environments. Yayasan Sabah and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, pp. 281-298.
  • A. Norhayati, ST Wong, S. Juliana, MN Shukor: An annotated checklist of reptiles in Danum Valley Conservation Area. In: Laily B. Din, Muhammad Yahya, A. Norhayati, MS Nizam, Waidi Sinun, A. Latiff (eds.): Danum Valley Conservation Area: Physical, Biological and Social Environments. Yayasan Sabah and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, 2005, pp. 299-312.
  • ST Wong, C. Servheen, L. Ambu: Home range, movement and activity patterns, and bedding sites of Malayan Sun Bears Helarctos malayanus in the Rainforest of Borneo. In: Biological Conservation. Volume 119, 2004, pp. 169-181. [SCI]
  • ST Wong, C. Servheen, L. Ambu: Food habits of Malayan sun bears in lowland tropical forest of Borneo. In: Ursus. Volume 13, 2002, pp. 127-136. [SCI]
  • YR Lin, ST Wong, CJ Pei .: Variations in skull morphology of Formosan Reeve's muntjac in Little Ghost Lake Forest Reserve, Pingtung, Taiwan. In: Notes of Wildlifers and Newsletter of Wildlifers (NOW). Volume 1, No. 4, 1993, pp. 8-11. (in Chinese language)
  • J. Sorenson: Interview with Siew Te Wong. In: The Brock Review. Volume 12, No. 1, 2011, pp. 182-186.
  • ST Wong: Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center in Malaysia Borneo. In: International Bear News. Volume 19, No. 1, 2010, pp. 18-19.
  • ST Wong: Sun Bear: The Forgotten Bear. In: Society & Environment. A monthly magazine published by Zayed International Prize for the Environment. July 2009, pp. 40-42.
  • The Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leaders, Wong ST & Gabriella Fredriksson. In: Sun Bear Adventure Journals. EWCL. 34 pages., 2006
  • ST Wong, C. Servheen: The Bornean Sun Bear and Bearded Pig Research and Conservation Project- a new field project to study the effects of selective logging on Malayan sun bears and bearded pigs in Borneo. In: International Bear News. Volume 14, No. 4, 2005, p. 24.
  • ST Wong, C. Servheen: New field project to study the effects of selective logging on bearded pigs and sun bears in Borneo. In: Suiform Soundings. Peccaries, Pigs, and Hippos Specialists Group Newsletter. Volume 5, No. 1, 2005, p. 30.
  • ST Wong: Dances with sun bears. In: Malayan Naturalist. Volume 56, No. 3, 2003, pp. 20-25.
  • ST Wong: Sun bear research on the web. In: International Bear News. Volume 12, No. 2, 2003, p. 9.
  • ST Wong, C. Servheen: Malaysia Malayan Sun bear Ecology. In: International Bear News. Volume 8, No. 3, 1999, pp. 11-12.

Web links

Commons : Wong Siew Te  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c BSBCC: ABOUT SIEW TE WONG, founder & chief executive of BSBCC ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed June 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bsbcc.org.my
  2. ↑ Siew Te, Wong in: sunbears.wildlifedirect.org: My Curriculum Vitae ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Accessed June 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / sunbears.wildlifedirect.org
  3. ↑ MESYM: Wong Siew Te, on Conserving Sun Bears in Borneo ; Accessed June 11, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b The Star: Sun bears: At home in the forest of May 5, 2014; Accessed June 11, 2014.

Remarks

  1. ↑ Original title: The ecology of Malayan sun bear in the lowland tropical rainforest of Sabah, Borneo
  2. ^ "Species Survival Commission", a science-based network of volunteer experts in the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN)
  3. ↑ Original title: The effects of selective logging on bearded pigs (Sus barbatus) in lowland tropical rainforest of Borneo.
personal data
SURNAME Wong, Siew Te
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Malaysian zoologist, CEO of the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Bukit Mertajam , Penang