The very first Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre’s Board Meeting was held on 15 December 2008 in the Belian Meeting Room at the Sabah Forestry Department Headquarters in Sandakan. At that time, the meeting report was just 2 pages long, and I was officially named the CEO of the centre during that meeting. Seventeen years later, we are holding our 42nd Board Meeting in this very same room, and the meeting report is 50 pages! We have come a long way!
I am so grateful to the founding board members of BSBCC:
Datuk Fred Kugan, the Chief Forest Conservator of Sabah Forestry Department;
Tuan Augustine Tuuga, the former Director of Sabah Wildlife Department; and Ms.
Cynthia Ong, the Chief Executive Facilitator of LEAP. Without them, BSBCC would
not exist.
Today’s Board Meeting was chaired by Datuk Fred and attended
by Dr. Nabila Sarkawi (representing the Sabah Wildlife Department), Ms. Winnie
Long (CEO of LEAP), and the BSBCC management team: Audrey, Fairo, Gloria, Ina,
Jacq, Yeuri, Mizuno, and myself. Thank you all!
I hope BSBCC will achieve its goals to conserve sun bears
through holistic and pragmatic approaches, and I get to attend the 100th Board
meeting in the far future (physically, not spiritually)!!
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