Biodiversity and Conservation (PDF)

Hong Ching Goh, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, Faculty of Built Environment, Universiti Malaya, Malaysia. She holds a PhD in Natural Science (Geography) from Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Germany, a bachelor's degree in Urban and Regional Planning, and an MSc in Tourism Planning from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She was the 3-year scholarship recipient of the German Academic Exchange Services (DAAD), a visiting scholar to the Centre of Development Research (ZEF) Bonn, Kyoto University, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was a fellow of the ASEAN Science Leadership Program 2016 and has been a member of the Global Young Academy since 2015 of which her membership serves a five-year term. She is also a corporate member of the Malaysian Institute of Planners. Over the past 20 years, her research interests have evolved from the initial focus on mainly urban planning and tourism planning to the current emphasis on the interface between urbanization and natural resource governance.

Saher Islam, MPhil, is a PhD candidate in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology and a Higher Education Commission (HEC) Scholar of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan at the University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (UVAS), Lahore, where she received her MPhil in Molecular Biology and her BS in Biotechnology and Bioinformatics. She worked as a Research Associate in a project funded by Grand Challenges Canada at UVAS. She served as Internee at the Pakistan Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (PCSIR), Lahore. She has visited United Kingdom, Singapore, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Italy, Russia, and Maldives for training, courses, and meetings. She is the recipient of 2016 Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds Travel Grant and the 2016 Travel Grant from the Wildlife Conservation Society. She has research interests in molecular biology, bioinformatics, genetics, and conservation biology.