The Sarawak Planted Forest Sdn Bhd and Natural Science Society present the following:
Date: 14th November 2008
Title: “Swiftlets of Malaysia- The Sustainable Management of This Wildlife Resource”
Speaker: Datuk Seri Lord Cranbrook
Time: 6.00-7.30pm
Venue: Level 5, New World Suite
Datuk Seri Lord Cranbrook's first post-graduate appointment was Technical Assistant to the Curator of the Sarawak Museum, Kuching, in 1956. After a brief period in Indonesia on a post-doctoral fellowship, he was appointed to the Zoology Department of the University of Malaya (1961-1970). Through a subsequent career as biologist and parliamentarian (in the UK House of Lords, 1978 - 1999) he has maintained close links with Sarawak and pursued research in zooarchaeology, wildlife conservation and the ecology of living vertebrates. Among other studies, he has specialised in the cave swiftlets of the Indo-Pacific region, researching over 50 years. He is the author of many scientific papers concerning the field identification of these birds, their breeding biology and echolocation, including a book co-authored with former student Dr Lim Chan Koon, "Swiftlets of Borneo - builders of edible nests", published in Malaysia in 2000 by Natural History Publications (Borneo) Sdn Bhd.
Limited copies of the book "Swiftlets of Borneo" will be available for sale at the lecture, with opportunity to get the books signed by the author.
The Natural Science Lectures are open to the public and admission is free.
Please direct enquiries to : sarawaknaturalscience@gmail.com
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