Dr Geoffrey Davison spent all his working life in Southeast Asia, as a university lecturer in Malaysia, a conservationist with WWF, and then with the National Parks Board in Singapore. His interests range across ornithology, tropical forest ecology and animal taxonomy. He has written numerous scientific papers, as well as a number of books about birds and wildlife in Southeast Asia, including Wild Malaysia. Dr Yeap Chin Aik began birdwatching in his early teens and is currently the Co-Founder and Project Manager of the Malaysian Nature Society's (MNS) Hornbill Conservation Project. He has written several scientific papers, and is one of the main compilers of Important Bird Areas in Malaysia: Key Sites for Conservation.
