Postdoctoral research | Movement ecology | Behavioural ecology | Herpetology 🐢🦎🐍 |
Hong Kong
Joined September 2019
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Monster in the stream!!! Caught some HUGE #BigHeadedTurtles to kick off our #accelerometry study. Will return in a month to check on the #turtles and the #accelerometers. Hopefully, this will provide us more clues about the #activity and #behaviours of this elusive animal.
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Patchy legislation means that animals are routinely taken from their natural habitats and sold in other countries. Here's how to close the legal gaps
go.nature.com/46HOTDT
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New paper - What could the next 20 years of wildlife tracking look like.
Our horizon scan, out today in Proc Royal Soc B, maps out 28 innovations to unlock movement ecology's untapped potential.
@sarameghanbeery
wildlabs.net/en/article/out-…
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📖On the hunt for the killers of the endangered pangolins, the book makes us confront the complexity of animal-to-human diseases, and the delayed if not denied justice for animals. Unlock 20% off with code 20CP2026 on our site. Valid through May 17.🔗shorturl.at/7poIj
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another important turtle paper by @WsVincentChan now out, this one in Wildlife Letters - Movement and space use patterns of the Beale's Eyed Turtle suggest sensitivity to environmental changes and poaching onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
Thrilled to share my first first-authored article published in Wildlife Letters! 🐢
We examine the movement ecology of the endangered Beale's eyed turtle and how this matters to their survival in a human-altered landscape.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Hong Kong folks! The official book launch for Crime and Pangolins is next week (Sat Apr 18) at HKU. Join the fun if you fancy
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new paper by @WsVincentChan in Animal Biotelemetry: User- and budget-friendly accelerometers highlight vulnerability to poaching and weather extremes for a Critically Endangered turtle
link.springer.com/article/10…
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A new scientific technique can reveal if an animal has been taken from the wild, exposing the illegal wildlife trade. @prof_turtleAU @westernsydneyu theconversation.com/the-tiny…
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On @guardian today to talk about the politics of the tragic fire in Hong Kong. The deputy head of the HKSAR Gov faced huge backlash after suggesting to ban bamboo scaffolding. It is a blunt attempt to spin away the real fuel of the fire: Illegal mesh wrapping and styrofoam boards that block windows. Also, the civil society-led mutual-aid network is way more efficient than the GONGOs. Most of the shelters rely on volunteers to run, and coordinate using messaging apps and web apps that's built within a few hours.
The fire exposes the city's dysfunctional governance, with bloods on Lee cabinet's hands.
theguardian.com/world/2025/n…
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(1/11) I oppose any hasty government move to abandon bamboo scaffolding, a proven, resilient, and cost-effective engineering system that has served Hong Kong’s high-rise and complex urban environment for decades. #HongKongFire
And here is why:
Excited about this great paper on using stable isotope analysis to fight illegal trade! 🐢 It highlights how we can distinguish wild from captive freshwater turtles. Happy to have contributed to this important work.
#WildlifeForensics #Turtle #SIA
Stable isotope analysis successfully identifies wild-caught individuals of threatened Asian freshwater turtles in illegal trade - sciencedirect.com/science/ar… - important and interesting study led by @SungYikHei
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On the blog🔎
🏙️Ashley Bang highlights priority areas for nature-based solutions in Hong Kong: places where they would best reduce #climatechange risks for #urban developments while maximizing benefits for #nature jecologyblog.com/2024/11/26/…
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New Paper! We highlighted a loophole in Chinese wildlife regulations. For many species, only wild specimens are regulated for trade, providing opportunities for wildlife laundering. Hopefully, regulatory changes will happen soon to rectify this loophole. cell.com/current-biology/ful…
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How would you use a thermal camera in your work?
WILDLABS is partnering with @flir to give away a FLIR ONE Edge Pro to 5 members of the #conservationtech community. Enter the running by July 10 for a chance to win!
Read more: wildlabs.net/article/enter-w…
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Our super popular annual Movement Ecology meeting will happen in Southampton this year! Registrations will open soon.
ALT Details of the next Movement Ecology SIG meeting set over a photograph of a park with trees in the sunshine. The text reads: "Movement Ecology annual meeting 11-12 September 2024, Southampton. The British Ecological Society Movement Ecology Special Interest Group. University of Southampton, England, UK. Organisers: Ryan Reisinger, David Sims, Jorn Cheney."
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Two Major Extinction Events in the Evolutionary History of Turtles: One Caused by an Asteroid, the Other by Hominins | The American Naturalist journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10…
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Unfortunately my office and colleagues don’t use twitter / X too much. The post here still captures so well on what is going to happen in our globally important wetland. 😞 😢 😔 sad!
The #HongKong government is planning to destroy fishponds right next to #MaiPo for urban development. The Mai Po Ramsar site is a key overwintering ground for migratory birds along the #EAAflyway @BirdLife_News @GlobalFlyway
Join us this Wed on Variety Hour! Excited to chat to you about our open-source, low cost accelerometer and how it helped transform our understanding toward the life history pattern of a critically endangered freshwater turtle species 🐢
Come along to Variety Hour next Wednesday, 27 September! Learn about Digital Earth Africa with @kenmubea, #biologging accelerometers with Wing Sing Chan, 3D #tech4wildlife tools with @stefanopuliti, and tagging polar bears with @sklenzen.
RSVP now: wildlabs.net/event/variety-h…
On my flight back to Hong Kong after disruption caused by typhoon. So happy to have my first conference at #BESMove2023. Showcasing my accelerometer works on 🐢 (a big shoutout to Brian for this). Enjoyed a lot with many great talks. And met many like minded with good advices.
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The 'did you even go to a conference if you didn't have a group photo' photo 📸 @BES_Move_SIG
Thanks all for coming to St Andrews and for your inspiring presentations and posters 🤓
We wish you a safe journey home 🏡
#BESMove2023 🐾👣
