The team held its first Research Group workshop with representatives from several faculties of Universiti Malaysia Sabah as well as from Danau Girang Field Centre, Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre, WWF Malaysia and JOAS (Indigenous Peoples Network of Malaysia), who had all expressed interest in being part of the Strategic Collaborative Assessment on the Pan Borneo Highway. After a quick introduction and background to the project, discussions covered possible collaboration with JCU, scope and scale of the research, potential capacity building and data sharing issues, among others. A preliminary timeline was created, to synergise and align as much as possible the advocacy and research plans. Next will be meetings with individual groups to further discuss potential agreements between the various institutions and JCU.
The Humans Habitats Highways Workshop held on 16 November 2017 in Kota Kinabalu was the first in a series with stakeholders to deliberate on the construction of roads, in particular the Pan Borneo Highway that is being rolled out in the Malaysian Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak.
