ACTG conducts tree genomic research to understand and conserve biological diversity using the latest advances, workshops and field-based assessments.
Selangor, Malaysia
Joined May 2019
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Further to our earlier post (news.mongabay.com/2023/12/ne…), recently described Tapanuli orangutan and its habitat are already severely threatened, as are conservationists aiming to halt dam development within the shrinking forest of North Sumatra news.mongabay.com/2019/12/fi… @mongabay
ACTG's New Year's resolution for #2024: more #funding towards #plant #dna #genomics, #taxonomy and #conservation #research of Asia's #threatened #flora. Happy New Year🌺! 🎉 @bgci @UGent_Botany @DHinsinger @GTA_GTSG @IntlOakSociety @IUCNssc @NatGeo @JChVie
Excited to join @bgci and @MortonArboretum in #teaching #tree #conservation #workshops in Chiang Mai and Hanoi! Look forward to meet existing/new collaborators and join forces to protect and study Asia's amazing #biodiversity 💚🌳! #redlisting #gapanalyses actg.science
Visiting beautiful Rimba Ilmu gardens and herbarium at @uni_malaya : collection work for the new #FloraMalesiana and #FloraPeninsularMalaysia #Fagaceae treatments. Many thanks to Dr Yong Kien-Thai and garden staff for their kind welcome and support.🌰🌳💚 rimba.um.edu.my/herbarium.ph…
Kickoff time for the new Flora of Peninsular Malaysia #Fagaceae project @FRIMKepong. 🌰🌳 #FloraPenMal #Biodiversity #Conservation #Genomics #Taxonomy asianfagaceae.com/ @BGCI @GTA_GTSG
As a follow-up of our previous post and recent visit - now on #Taiwan's evening news: #Taitung's world-class primary #Fagaceae forests are being cleared - #conservation groups call for urgent halt｜20230523 PTS News youtube.com/watch?v=tIASti4N… @bgci @oak @FaunaFloraInt #biodiversity
Some impressions of our #fieldwork in #LadanHills and #BukitPatoi in #Brunei. DNA's added to our BioBank: #Dipterocarpus seedlings, flowering #Fordia & #Aglaia and Bruneian endemic #Loxoxarpus_taeniophyllus. @UBD_IBER @BRIT_org @bgci @LinskyJean #GGI_grant #genomics #biodiversity
#GGI_grant supported #fieldwork continues, as we explore the fringes of #AndulauFR in #Brunei. Here are some of the specimens encountered thus far... 🌿🍃#Castanopsis #Uvaria @UBD_IBER @BRIT_org @bgci @LinskyJean @danielecicuzza #GGI_grant #genomics #conservation #biodiversity
