Dr. Nic Pilcher - Marine Biology & Conservation

It would not be possible to offer the range of services, or follow our demanding code of practice, without specialist help in some areas. A business is only as good as it’s people and we have chosen our advisors carefully to enable us to offer the best. Dr. Nic Pilcher is an expert in Marine Biology & Conservation with a focus on Marine Turtles, and an adviser to Borneo Dream.

Dr. Pilcher is the founder and Executive Director of the Marine Research Foundation, a non-profit agency established here in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, to carry out studies which lead to the conservation of marine resources throughout the SE Asian

and Indian Ocean regions. He currently is working on projects in Sabah, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Qatar, Oman, Vietnam and Indonesia, to name a few.

Nick has a PhD in marine turtle conservation from Southern Cross University in Australia, and has been in Malaysia for the better part of the last fifteen years. He spent seven of those based in Kuching, Sarawak, where among other things, he published a book on Layang Layang and edited another on marine turtles of the Indio-Pacific.

Nick’s work on turtles has spanned much of the globe. Today he is the Co-Chair of the IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group, the world’s authority on sea turtle conservation and biology. He is married to a Sabahan, Carmen, and together they juggle the complex web of projects at the Foundation and the raising of their three children, Danielle, Francine and Leilana.

Website: www.mrf-asia.org
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