Kuching wins bid to host congress on primatology in 2022
KUCHING: The hosting of the International Primatological Society ( IPS) Congress here in 2022 will facilitate the biological and ecological studies on primates around Malaysia and Indonesia, and also to spread the findings through worldwide publications and conferences.
This was disclosed by Malaysian Primatological Society ( MPS) president Prof Mashhor Mansor during a courtesy call on Deputy Chief Minister Datuk Amar Awang Tengah Ali Hasan at Wisma Sumber Alam here yesterday. The visit was to brief Awang Tengah on the hosting of IPS Congress Kuching 2022, the bidding of which was won by MPS with the help from Sarawak Convention Bureau ( SCB) during the 27th IPS Congress in Kenya recently. “One of the main missions of MPS is to conduct biological and ecological studies on primates around Malaysia and Indonesia, and to spread the findings through publications and conferences.
“As such, the IPS Congress 2022 in Kuching, Sarawak, would allow us to present our latest studies to an international audience,” said Mashhor, who is also advisor to the IPS Congress 2022 organising committee. Meanwhile in his remarks, Sarawak Forestry Corporation ( SFC) deputy general manager Nizam Kaderi regarded the Kuching hosting of the congress as being ‘ timely’, in that it would help create better awareness of Sarawak government’s efforts in the conservation of primates, as well as to present local studies and findings from Sarawak to the public. The IPS Congress 2022 would have Borneo Convention Centre Kuching ( BCCK) as the official venue and Pullman Hotel Kuching as the official hotel.
The event is expected to attract around 1,000 international delegates.