EXPERTISE
Conservation and wildlife management
U.K-born tropical biologist Datuk Dr John Payne has resided in Malaysia and Indonesia since 1975, including 25,000 hours spent living within the tropical rainforest and heading the nature conservation NGO, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), in Sabah from 1982 to 1998. Now, as head of the Borneo Rhino Alliance (www.bringingbackourrareanimals.org), he aims to highlight demography, spatial distribution, and reproductive performance as the vital parameters required to prevent extinctions. His current work involves the application of simple methods to increase carrying capacity of forest-plantation landscapes for endangered large mammals.