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Curriculum Vitae

LIM CHAN KOON

Date of birth : 6 December 1970 Place of birth : Kuching, Sarawak Permanent Address : 157 Lorong 4A, Off Jalan Stampin Timur, 93350 Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.

Education : Bachelor of Science (Hons.), University of Malaya : Research Fellow under Mac Arthur Foundation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak : Doctor of Philosophy, The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE), University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom.

B.Sc. project : Protein variations and systematic of the White-bellied Swiftlets Collocalia esculenta.

Post-graduate Research : Systematic and distribution of the subfamily Cerambycinae (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) of Sarawak.

Ph.D. project : Sustainable harvesting and conservation of the edible nest swiftlets (Aerodramus spp.) of Sarawak.

Working experience : Jan 2000 – Jun 2001 — Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Wildlife Conservation Society.

: July 2001 to February 2004 — Community Adviser, DANCED/SWMPI Project.

: February 2004 to May 2008 — Senior Manager (Planning), Protected Areas and Biodiversity Conservation Unit, Sarawak Forestry Corporation.

: June 2008 to June 2011— Senior Lecturer, Department of Zoology, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.

Publications Lim, C. K. (1999) Swiftlets and Caves. In: Biodiversity and Cultural Property in the Management of Limestone Resources: Lessons from East Asia (by Jaap Vermeulen & Tony Whitten). The World Bank, Washington D. C. pp. 59 –60.

Cranbrook, Earl of & Lim, C. K. (1999) Cave Swiftlets. In The Birds of Borneo (4th edition , by B. E. Smythies, revised by G. W. H. Davison). Natural History Publication, Kota Kinabalu.

Lim, C. K. (1999) Sustainable Management and Conservation of the White-nest Swiftlets of Sarawak. Hornbill, vol. 3 : 74 – 85.

Lim, C. K. (2000) Bird’s Nest Soup. Wildlife Conservation, February 2000, p. 30 – 35.

Lim, C. K. (2000) Humans and Swiftlets — Centuries of Affiliation. Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Borneo Research Conference: Borneo 200 environment, conservation and land. July 10- 14, 2000. Kuching, Sarawak. pp. 41 – 54. Lim, C. K. (2000) Cave Manager cum Trader Trader Concept — A proposed co-management plan for communal edible bird’s nest caves. Hornbill, vol. 4 : 90 – 101.

:Lim, C. K. (2001) The Elixir of Caves: Birds’ Nest Soup. Sarawak Gazette, Vol. CXXVIII, No. 1543 : 38 – 43.

Lim, C. K. & Cranbrook, Earl of (2002) Swiftlets of Borneo: Builders of Edible Nests. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu.

Lim, C. K. (2006) An overview of sustainable swiftlet farming in South-east Asia. The First South East Asia Swiftlet Farming Conference: Challenges to Sustainable Swiftlet Farming. MCA Traditional Agriculture & Agro Based Industry Bureau, Penang.

Lim, C. K. (2007) Edible Bird's Nest: A Valuable and Renewable Resource in Grand Perfect Conservation Areas. The Regional Conference of Biodiversity Conservation in Tropical Planted Forests in Southeast Asia (eds R. Stuebing, J. Unggang, J. Ferner, J. Ferner, B. Giman & K. K. Ping), pp. 50 - 57. Forest Department, Sarawak Forestry Corporation, Grand Perfect Sdn. Bhd., Bintulu.

Lim, C. K. (2007) Edible Bird's Nest: Swiftlet Farming in Specially-designed Buildings. The Ingenieur, pp. 19 - 22.