Conservation practitioners
Behavioural ecologists
People working together to coexist with wildlife
Bekerjasama untuk hidup berdampingan dengan hidupan liar
What we do?
Where ?
The focus of our work, so far, has been in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo – The home of the largest remaining wild population of Pongo pygmaeus morio, the northeastern subspecies of the Bornean orang utan.
Who we are?
Felicity Oram has a Ph.D. in Ecological Processes from the Institute of Tropical Biology and Conservation from Universiti Malaysia Sabah, an MSc in Primate Conservation from Oxford Brookes University, UK, and a BSc in Microbiology from the University of Washington, USA. She is a member of the SCC IUCN Primate Specialist Group in Human-Primate Interactions and the section on Great Apes. Felicity has a broad range of experiences with wildlife including orang utans and other primates living in captive care, those in supportive care in rehabilitation programmes, and fully competent wild animals.
Pravind Segaran has a BSc in Conservation Biology from the Institute of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah and is currently doing a MSc at the same Institute. In addition to practitioner conservation and outreach work on most Orang JUGA projects, Pravind’s research is focused on better understanding temporal patterns of spatial use of resident female orangutans living in fragmented forests.
Sharifah Noor Hazimah holds a BSc in Forestry Science and is completing her MSc in Ecological Processes from the Institute of Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS). Her MSc research focused on the population dynamics of proboscis monkeys (Nasalis larvatus) on the west coast of Sabah. Sharifah now aims to expand the reach of her work in practical conservation with Orang Juga to facilitate coexistence with primates living in human-altered habitats.
Kenneth Krank has an MSc in Geotechnical Engineering and is a licensed P.E. in Civil Engineering. He is a retired Supervising Engineer, for a regional government natural resources management agency. He is a hydrologist, GIS analyst and content creator, database manager and geophysical Surveyor and a former Naval Aviator. Ken is instrumental in the design, supervision of the installation and repair of orangutan bridges and other high-mounted conservation equipment.
