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BIOGRAPHIES Dr. Ramesh Boonratana (Zimbo) received his academic training in physical anthropology and wildlife biology, he has worked on various aspects of biodiversity conservation and natural resource management in several Asian countries. He has carried out numerous general wildlife surveys, and long-term field studies on a number of globally threatened mammals that include the Asian Elephant, the Sumatran Rhinoceros, the Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey and the Proboscis Monkey. In recent years, he has focused his conservation efforts in training and developing the capacities of protected area staff and members of the stakeholder communities and agencies, in supervising graduate students in large mammal research, and strengthening protected area management. Dirk Euler Student of biology with special emphasis on nature conservation, ecology and geography at Philipps-University Marburg. Graduated as a diploma biologist in February 2002. Diploma thesis in the scope of the BMBF-Project “Large scale, stochastically shaped grazing as contribution for the nature protection-conformal development of open culture landscapes in low mountain ranges“. Topic: “Relevance of the ephemerical habitat dung in sheep drift systems“. Afterwards employed in the institute of applied freshwater ecology, Seddin. From July 2003 research associate in the working group of Prof. Dr. J. Sauerborn in the institute of plant production and agro-ecology in the tropics and subtropics. Preparing a thesis on the topic “Analysis and manipulation of the agrobiocoenosis for the sustainable management of litchi growing systems in northern Thai hillsides“ (subproject C 1.2 of the SFB 564). Since the early 1990's, member of the Federation for Environment and Nature Conservation, Germany and of the World Wildlife Fund, Germany. Since 2003 he has been a member of the Society for Conservation Biology and of the Society for Ecology. J. F. Maxwell (Max) initially came to Thailand in January 1969 after having studied botany and geology as an undergraduate. He worked at the Herbarium, Department of Agriculture, Bangkok until late 1976 when he went to the University of Singapore to finish graduate work in Botany, and was in the Herbarium, Botanic Gardens until mid-1984. He returned to Thailand and developed the herbarium at Prince of Sonkla University, Haad Yai and moved to Chiang Mai University in mid-1987 where he started the first Chiang Mai University Herbarium at the Faculty of Pharmacy. He left there in 1992 after making a collection of over 10,000 specimens. The herbarium at the Biology Department was started in 1992 and today has over 25,000 specimens. The two combined CMU herbaria forms the 3rd largest collection in the country and by far the largest university collection. During his botanical career, he has published numerous scientific papers as well as writing several books. One of his present projects is studying the flora and vegetation on the west side of Doi Lohn, especially the Mae Lai Valley – which he finds fascinating. Iain Robertson is a freelance ornithologist with more than twenty years experience of studying birds in |
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