Photo of Mark Rayan  Darmaraj Mark Rayan Darmaraj
Wildlife Conservation Society Malaysia Program, No 7, Jalan Ridgeway
93200 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia
markrayan78(at)gmail.com

I am currently the Country Director of Wildlife Conservation Society Malaysia Program and have about 20 years of experience in wildlife conservation in Malaysia. My prior conservation experience involved implementing conservation strategies that has contributed to the protection of habitats and species. I completed my PhD in Biodiversity Management in 2012 at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent, UK and received the Thomas Huxley Prize award from the Zoological Society of London for the best PhD thesis in the UK for the year 2013 and the Fiona Alexander Prize award in 2014 for being an outstanding PhD student from DICE. I am currently the only Malaysian with a PhD on tiger ecology and have published articles and journals on an array of different species from large mammals to small carnivores as part of advocacy efforts to prioritize Malaysian wildlife conservation.