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Collaborators

Forest Department

of Sarawak

Forest Department Sarawak is committed to total quality as the foundation of its very existence. 

 

To achieve total quality, Forest Department Sarawak dedicates itself towards continuous improvement in the field of human resources through:

 

  • Leadership by example 

  • Quality workforce 

  • Healthy work ethic 

  • Customer-driven initiative 

  • Entrepreneurial performance 

  • Continuous learning

 

Recognizing the forces of change as the key elements in influencing organizational excellence, the Forest Department Sarawak is in constant search for new ideas in scientific innovation in its daily administrative and managerial undertaking. 

Sarawak Forest Corporations

SARAWAK FORESTRY has been established by the State Government to position Sarawak at the forefront of sustainable forest management and conservation, as outlined in Sarawak Forestry Corporation Ordinance, approved by the State Legislative Assembly in 1995. SARAWAK FORESTRY’s workforce comprises well-trained and highly motivated professionals from every field of resource management. To ensure effective and highly focused performance, SARAWAK FORESTRY launched its operation on June 9, 2003 and is organized into six key business units, which are all committed to responsibly manage and conserve Sarawak’s forests. SARAWAK FORESTRY’s functions are governed by 4 major ordinances, namely the Sarawak Forestry Corporation Ordinance, 1995; the Forests Ordinance, 1958; the National Parks and Nature Reserves Ordinance, 1998 and the Wild Life Protection Ordinance, 1998. Its functions include:

  • Sustainable forest management and conservation

  • Reforestation and rehabilitation

  • Management of protected and totally protected areas

  • Conducting scientific research on Sarawak’s rainforests and its products

  • Training and education of employees, stakeholders and the general public

  • Providing customers of Sarawak’s forest products with reliable information and support

WWF-Sarawak

In Sarawak, works related to TPAs started from May 2010 in collaboration with the Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation Unit (PABC) in Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC), looking into management effectiveness. Twenty-nine gazetted TPAs are participating in the assessment using the Management Effectiveness Tracking Tool (METT) and expected to complete by 2013. The tool will assist SFC in TPAs management and monitoring as well as strengthening their current capacity in terms of resources, skills and institutional support. Other than that, WWF-Malaysia and PABC collaborate in identifying the capacity gaps in TPA staff’s knowledge and skills of protected area management.

Other than that, WWF-Malaysia is also in discussion with the Forest Department of Sarawak to map the vegetation type/habitat representation in Sarawak TPAs. The vegetation representation assessment will produce high-quality, standardised maps of the vegetation types within the TPAs. The maps produced and the associated information that is gathered from the assessment will be supporting resource assessment, management, and conservation efforts in TPAs management.

Monash University

Welcome to Monash University Malaysia.

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We are a full-fledged campus of Monash University - a premier research intensive Australian university ranked among the top 100 universities in the world by the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, and a member of Australia’s prestigious Group of Eight (Go8). Established in 1998, Monash Malaysia is the first foreign university campus in Malaysia that operates in partnership with the Sunway Education Group. 

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A self-accrediting university, our campus offers a distinctly international and culturally rich environment with over 6,000 students from 70 different countries. Students are taught by highly qualified academic staff from across the world and the same rigorous standards are applied at the campus as at other Monash campuses. 

Charles Darwin University

Charles Darwin University is somewhat unique. No other single Australian university serves such a large area of the continent, in such a remote location and with such a small population to sustain it.While the Northern Territory covers around 16 per cent of Australia, in 2015 it was home to just over 1 per cent of the population, 30 per cent of whom were Indigenous compared with around 3 per cent of the general Australian population.The only university based in the Northern Territory, CDU is a dual sector university. We are the most northerly Australian university, literally on Asia’s doorstep. Closer in many respects to the vast populations of Asia than to the southern Australian states.

Charles Darwin University (CDU) is known for its expertise in research by specialising in tropical and desert knowledge in the Australian and Asia-Pacific region.

CDU's core research strengths are in:

  • natural and cultural resource management

  • human health and wellbeing

  • teaching, learning and living

  • community, development and identity

Staff at CDU provide a wealth of experience for stakeholders and students undertaking collaborative projects.

Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihood

The Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods (RIEL) is a Tier 1 institute that consolidates CDU's environmental and natural resource management research. We currently comprise around 50 scientists and 10 support staff, we host and train some 75 PhD students (roughly one-third international), and we are assisted by about 75 honorary adjunct research fellows in partner institutions, industry and government.

We are multidisciplinary in our approach, integrating insights from the natural, physical, spatial and social sciences to explore the complex interconnections within and between social and environmental systems. We are also transdisciplinary, in that we often work collaboratively with intended end-users along the full spectrum from defining research questions through to applying results. Our livelihoods approach emphasises the relationships between people and country (including Indigenous people), in particular the way we derive a living from lands and seas, and how that affects the management of natural resources.

The Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods is building on solid foundations, with an exciting research agenda. We are working with our partners in northern and central Australia and the region, to develop new knowledge to:

  1. better understand the ecological functions and processes of unique ecosystems — terrestrial, aquatic and marine;

  2. inform decisions about how best to manage natural resources in government, industry and the community; and

  3. underpin innovation, in developing new more sustainable technologies, policies and approaches.

Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation

The Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (IBEC) was set up in July 1994 as one of the founding institutions within UNIMAS with the purpose of promoting research in two niche areas: Tropical Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation. Its teaching and research program are structured at the masters, doctoral and postdoctoral levels. Research and teaching program in IBEC have been established upon the following two concepts:

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1. The acquisition of knowledge concerning the significance and modes of sustainable development of natural resources is of paramount importance to Malaysia's future development. Development initiatives will be self-defeating and socially destructive unless the structure, functions and diversity of the nations' natural system are understood and judiciously protected.

 

2. For Malaysia to forge ahead as a developed nation, the country's industries must seek to manage sustainable resource, because biodiversity and environmental conservation provide greater options and significant opportunities for diversification of industrial activities and economic development.

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