Benoit Goossens | Striving Towards Sustainability in the Lower Kinabatangan Floodplain

Benoît is the Director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary, a research and training facility co-managed by Sabah Wildlife Department and Cardiff University, where he leads projects on biodiversity responses to habitat fragmentation and degradation. Benoit is also a Professor at Cardiff University and a member of the IUCN SSC’s Asian Wild Cattle, Crocodile, Asian Elephant and Primate Specialist Groups.

In this presentation, I will describe how our research at the Danau Girang Field Centre led to detailed understanding of forest use by endangered animals in Sabah, Malaysia, and provided critical evidence for implementation of new approaches designed to provide enhanced protection for the Bornean elephant, Bornean banteng, proboscis monkey and Sunda clouded leopard.