MEME UPDATES ISSUE 1 JULY-AUGUST 2011 BROKEN COLLAR - Castello, our first collared elephant, broke his GPS collar and stopped transmitting data. COMPLETED FIELDWORK - Vanitha Ponnusamy, our star social scientist, completed the socioeconomic survey on human-elephant conflict. NEW MEMBER AND FIELDHOUSE - Steven Lim joins MEME as our Field Project Manager. We also got our first field station. MEME - the Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants - is gradually taking off as a research project. In this Newsletter you will find regular updates on our progress in the field, news, and upcoming events. 1
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MEME UPDATESISSUE 1 JULY-AUGUST 2011
BROKEN COLLAR - Castello, our first collared elephant, broke his GPS collar and stopped transmitting data.
COMPLETED FIELDWORK - Vanitha Ponnusamy, our star social scientist, completed the socioeconomic survey on human-elephant conflict.
NEW MEMBER AND FIELDHOUSE - Steven Lim joins MEME as our Field Project Manager. We also got our first field station.
MEME - the Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants - is gradually
taking off as a research project. In this Newsletter you will find regular updates on our progress in the field, news, and upcoming events.
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MEME stands for the Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants and is a
research project that commenced in Mar 2011 and aims to:
(1) assess and help to improve the effectiveness of elephant management in Peninsular Malaysia;
(2) develop a long-term management strategy based on scientific knowledge of elephant behavior
and ecology; and
(3) build capacity within Malaysian elephant managers and academic circles to produce a new
generation of wildlife researchers and managers of high scientific caliber.
MEME is a dynamic and synergistic program whose sustainability depends upon the long term
commitment of relevant government agencies, project members, and funding bodies. MEME core
partners are the Malaysian Department of Wildlife and National Parks (PERHILITAN),
the University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC), and the Smithsonian
Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI, USA). We also have key partners at the University of
Malaya, James Cook University, and Copenhagen Zoo; and we are open to new additions to the team.
MEME is an expensive project. We are privileged to count with financial support from a number of
donors that include the Lab of Terrestrial Ecology of the National University of Singapore, Ah Meng
Memorial Fund (Singapore), Wildlife Reserves (Singapore), Copenhagen Zoo (Denmark), Friends of the
National Zoo (USA), USFWS Asian Elephant Conservation Fund (USA), and our favorite
philanthropists and elephant conservationists Ian Mellsop and Kay ‘Mama Gajah’ Arnold.
Soon we expect to close a long-term collaborations with an important Malaysian corporation. We
sincerely thank this support, without which MEME won’t be a reality.
MEME Updates is a bimonthly Newsletter that we will use to inform our friends and supporters
about the project’s news and activities. Stay tuned because things are
moving fast in MEME!
In Kuala Lumpur, 30 Aug 2011,
Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, PhDAssistant ProfessorSchool of GeographyUniversity of Nottingham Malaysia [email protected]