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Livelihoods, Transients, and the Challenge of Marine Conservation Semporna Peninsular Priority Conservation Area 7:30 PM, 30th March, 2010 Mark.s Lodge [View with PicLens] Rosalie Corpuz, Honorary Treasurer of the SS Sandakan Branch, dropped her accounting responsibilities for the night to give a very informative and insightful talk to the Sabah Society. Her After a troublesome start to the presentation because of technological problems, Amde Sidik, a prominent Kadayan, gave a talk about his people – not the one he had planned to give, but no less interesting for that. The Kadayans, a gentle, rather shy people, are to be found in Borneo; in the areas of Sabah Tan Sri Herman Luping’s talk on the background to the renewed Kadazandusun controversy was fascinating. Firstly, there is no such person as a Kadazandusun. Both the Kadazans and the Dusuns can trace their ancestry back to Nunuk Ragang – The Red Banyan Tree – the site of which is near Telupid in the centre Dr Geoffrey Muldoon gave us an inspiring and very thought provoking presentation on the state of fish populations in the Coral Triangle. This is an area of 2.3 million square miles of ocean in the Indo-Pacific (see the WWF Map) around Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, the Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste. The Coral The significance of North Borneo, hence Sabah, to the pioneering wildlife documentary makers Osa & Martin Johnson was brought to life by Ms Jacquelyn Borgeson, curator of the Osa & Martin Johnson Safari Museum in Chanute, Kansas, USA. The Society hosted Jacquelyn for the 2nd time in 5 years, and were treated to slideshow of This talk by Douglas Furtek on Tuesday 14th July gave an insight into the potential of the chocolate industry of Sabah. The speaker informed the audience, that Sabah has been the main producer of Malaysian cocoa (the state had been the leading cocoa producer even before it joined Malaysia.) He then went on to highlight This very informative and fascinating talk held the attention of all throughout the presentation. We learned of the different snakes, how the venom is produced in the glands of the head and discharged via the fangs. Ms Chong has studied, encouraged and recorded the traditional music of the Dusun Tindal people of Kampong Tenghilan just south of Kota Belud. As with many traditional activities, many of the skills are being lost as the older generations pass on and the younger people pursue modern activities. In In much of the tropics where there are no pronounced dry periods or seasonal variation in temperature, maintaining a garden that is continuously in bloom and colourful can be a challenge. Prominent Malaysian botanist and horticulturist, Dr. Francis Ng, was in Sandakan to share his experience in creating and maintaining a colourful garden throughout the This project, under the auspices of Danau Girang Field Centre, The School of Biosciences at Cardiff University in UK, University Malaysia Sabah, Hutan and Sabah Wildlife Department, has been set up to monitor and conserve the elephant populations in Sabah. |
 
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