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