Keeps Jumbo at Bay

By Dr. Ahimsa Campos-Arceiz, MEME’s PI and Associate Professor, School of Geography “Conflict arises between humans and elephants when villages, farms and plantations close in on wild habitats. Electric fence is one way to avoid the encounters.” … starts a column on thestar that features the activities of the Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants (MEME) project.

MyResearch and UNMC Research in the Media

MyResearch was featured in The Star newspaper on the 03 Sep 2014, in a special suppement entitled INNOVATIONS MALAYSIA. The article starts: “The Centre for Islamic Business and Finance Research (CIBFR) is based in the Nottingham University Business School of The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus (UNMC) and brings together experts from a range of …

UNMC featured in Asia Research News 2014

We have been fortunate enough to have three pieces in the 2014 issue of Asia Research News. The featured articles are: Page 6: Natural protections for tropical fruits prolong shelf life Page 29: Crossing continents: Where we drive affects how we drive Page 50: Exposing the secret life of endangered elephants An interactive version of …

Elephants are making the headlines, for all the wrong reasons

I am in the UK at the moment and, picking up The Independent, I noticed that they had a piece about elephants. It turns out that they have a campaign against the loss of elephants in the world. This is a quote from their campaign: “Elephant Crisis In 2011, more African elephants were killed than …

BBC Coverage of Elephant Relocation

There has recently been some very nice coverage of the elephant relocation work that is being done at The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, under the MEME (Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants) project (all previous posts on MEME can be seen at this tag). The BBC recently printed a very nice story (9th Nov …

Our Neighbours Are Elephants!

“Urban sprawl is now impacting on the habitats of wildlife in countries around the world, so how can wildlife and city dwellers live together? Reports from cities around the world ask what should be done if your new next door neighbours turn out to be wild animals: Bob Walker reports from Malaysia…..” … so starts …

Centre for Post-harvest Biotechnology: Custom Tag

In a recent post I said that I would tag posts for specific groups so that you could use them on your own web site (for example) to give you a URL that provided easy access to blog posts. At that time, I set up a MEME tag, which gives access to all the posts …

Promote your research through a custom tag

Many of you are working on research projects that you might want to blog about, and then might want to link to all the blog posts about that research. This is easy to do with Word Press (the platform that this blog uses). For example, we can easily link to all the What is ….? …

GPS, camera traps and dung expose the secret life of endangered elephants

A very nice feature to the MEME project on the University web site (see here, and make sure that you take a look at the very interesting video).

MEME/Sime Darby Launch

Professor Peter Mitchell and I were lucky enough to be invited to the official launch of the MEME (Management and Ecology of Malaysian Elephants) project, which has been funded by Yayasan Sime Darby (YSD). The launch event was held at the Belum Rainfoest Resort. It is around this area that a lot of the work …