
Chin-Aik YeapIndependent Researcher
Chin-Aik Yeap
MSc Conservation Biology
Giving my best shot to advance bird conservation in my beloved country. No try, just do it.
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Mainland Southeast Asia supports some of the richest faunas in the Old-World tropics, overlapping entirely with the megadiverse Indo-Burma and Sundaland biodiversity hotspots, and major bird migratory routes in the East Asian- Australasian Flyway. The exploitation of wildlife for food, medicines, ornaments and other human uses is a well-known threa...
With land use change rapidly increasing in Asia, conservation prioritisation has emerged as an important tool in identifying critical landscapes for biodiversity to safeguard them from human pressures. In Peninsular Malaysia, the Malaysian Nature Society (MNS/BirdLife in Malaysia) developed a set of Criteria to identify Important Hornbill Landscape...
Sarawak is Malaysia’s largest state, covering most of northern Borneo. It has a remarkable history of scientific bird study, starting in the 1840s and growing ever since. To set the stage for the gazetteer, which is the core of this paper, we start with a review of this history and discuss various forces that have influenced the direction of bird r...
Forests in tropical Asia and New Guinea provide local and global benefits to people and are exceptionally rich in biodiversity but they have receded by more than 75% in the past 100 years. This project set out to strengthen effective engagement of non-state actors in forest monitoring, planning and policy processes in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Phili...
The Oriental Pied Hornbill is one of the ten species of hornbills found in Malaysia, and known to be an adaptable species with regard to utilising available food resources, although there is not much information about its foraging behaviour where its habitat overlap with human activities. We observed an opportunistic behaviour of a pair of Oriental...
Southeast Asia’s diverse coastal wetlands, which span natural mudflats and mangroves to man-made salt pans, offer critical habitat for many migratory waterbird species in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. Species dependent on these wetlands include nearly the entire population of the Critically Endangered spoon-billed sandpiper Calidris pygmaea a...
Nature-based Solutions (NbS) have been advocated to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural or modified ecosystems, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits. The uptake of NbS differs regionally with some countries exhibiting greater uptake than others. The success of NbS also differs regionally with varying envi...
The Belum-Temengor Forest Complex (BTFC) is one of Peninsular Malaysia’s last remaining wilderness in the northern region with a total area covering over 339,000 ha. This vast landscape has attracted the attention of conservationists and researchers since the 1970s and several scientific expeditions and wildlife surveys have been conducted by gover...
A broad introduction of Malaysian hornbills and their ecology, how it relates to its primary threat in Peninsular Malaysia - habitat loss and fragmentation - and what we can do about it.
Here we highlight some of the recent collaborative efforts on identifying Helmeted Hornbill population strongholds across the species range.
Malaysia is an important hornbill range country in Asia supporting a total of 10 hornbill species. Malaysia ranks second (collectively with Myanmar and the Philippines) after Thailand and Indonesia (both 13 species respectively) in terms of hornbill diversity per country. Within Malaysia, all 10 species has been recorded in Peninsular Malaysia wher...
This conservation strategy and action plan document outlines a bold, long-term vision to ensure that the unique Helmeted Hornbill thrives in ecologically functional populations across its natural range, valued by local and global stakeholder communities and effectively protected from threats related to poaching, trafficking and habitat loss.
This report represents the first effort in documenting the occurrences of the globally threatened PPHBs and determining its current status in the Ulu Muda Forest Reserve based on collated data, surveys and monitoring efforts. Based on the information gathered, it is evident that GUMFC is an important ‘stop-over’ point (perhaps even ‘wintering’ akin...
Malaysia is an important hornbill range country in Asia supporting a total of 10 hornbill species. Our country ranks second (collectively with Myanmar and the Philippines) after Thailand and Indonesia (both 13 species respectively) in terms of hornbill diversity per country. Within Malaysia, all 10 species has been recorded in Peninsular Malaysia w...
Malaysia is an important hornbill range country in Asia supporting a total of 10 hornbill species. Our country ranks second (collectively with Myanmar and the Philippines) after Thailand and Indonesia (both 13 species respectively) in terms of hornbill diversity per country. Within Malaysia, all 10 species has been recorded in Peninsular Malaysia w...
The extensive coastline of Sarawak is one of the most important wintering grounds for waterbirds in Malaysia. Extending for approximately 1,050 km, the Sarawak coastline is the second longest of any State in the country. It stretches from the rugged rocky coastline at the westernmost tip of Tanjung Datu to the mangrove-fringed coast of Lawas at the...
Poster presented in the Arctic Migratory Bird Initiative (AMBI) East Asian-Australasian Flyway (EAAF) Workshop, Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore, 8-10 January 2017
Malaysia, with its rapidly growing economy, exemplifies the tensions between conservation and development faced by many tropical nations. Here we present the results of a multi-stakeholder engagement exercise conducted to (1) define conservation priorities in Peninsular Malaysia and (2) explore differences in perceptions among and within stakeholde...
Poster presented in the Seberang Perai International Conference on Ecotourism and Conservation Efforts (SPICEC), 23-25 November 2016, Seberang Jaya, Penang
Poster presented in the Seberang Perai International Conference on Ecotourism and Conservation Efforts (SPICEC), 23-25 November 2016, Seberang Jaya, Penang
The Belum-Temengor Forest Complex (BTFC) is perhaps Peninsular Malaysia’s second most crucial forested landscapes after Taman Negara National Park in terms of biodiversity and area size. With an estimated total area of 320,000 ha, BTFC has been shown to support high levels of biodiversity from plants to invertebrates and large mammals based on a se...
Brief side presentation to alert Protected Area managers about current situation and conservation status of Helmeted Hornbills and the need to be alert to possible poaching threat for their casques.
A recent project in Malaysia shows how looking beyond the quarry boundary can enable extractive operations to have an overall positive impact on nature.
The Malaysian Nature Society and hornbills have a long history together. The foundation of our extant knowledge about our hornbills in Malaysia was a result of the cumulative efforts of birdwatchers who diligently reported field observations which were published in the Malayan Nature Journal and/or Malaysian (Malayan) Naturalist spanning over sever...
Tanjung Tuan is a primary spring raptor migration watchsite in Malaysia. During northbound migration, many raptors can be seen crossing the Straits of Malacca from Sumatra (Indonesia) to Peninsular Malaysia. We examined the migration magnitude, timing, and flight behavior of migratory raptors recorded based on migration counts at Tanjung Tuan in 20...
Poster presentation on Plain-pouched Hornbills in the Greater Ulu Muda Forest Complex in Kedah State.
The Species Action Plan was commissioned by the Peat Swamp Forest Project and would complement and feed into the Integrated Management Plan of the South-East Pahang Peat Swamp Forest. Lim Kim Chye was the Principal Consultant while Yeap Chin Aik provided supporting technical (subject) expertise.
Information and analysis on the 55 IBAs in Malaysia.
A State-specific Species Conservation Plan for Lesser Adjutant