Updates On 3rd Mar 2018

�I�ve been working with WWF-Malaysia for the past 13 years. While doing my PhD in 2012, I was also conducting monitoring work in the forests of Belum-Temengor.

At that time, the nearest settlement was about a day�s walk away. There was one incident where I was driving the 4WD along a logging road when I suddenly came into an area with many fallen trees.

I was confident that I would be able to navigate across it safely, but little did I know that I was driving straight into danger.

With each forward movement the vehicle made, it also went sideways. Within minutes, the 4WD was at the edge of a deep ravine! In panic and desperation, I had to decide quickly if it was better to save myself with all the data and camera-traps still in the vehicle, or stay and try to navigate the 4WD to safety. In the end, I decided to save myself – but not without the data, as it was way too important to be left behind.

I finally managed to get out by tying a winch to the nearest tree and pulling myself up. This was by far, one of the more intense moments that I�ve experienced in the field.�

� Dr. Mark Rayan Darmaraj, Lead – Tiger Conservation Programme

Photo credits: (c) WWF-Malaysia / Lau Ching Fong.

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