Film night -2

Dear Members

We are pleased to announce that MNSKB will be holding a film evening on Thursday, 8 March at the Islamic Centre from 7:30 to 9:30pm. To register to attend this evening of films, reply to this email,mnskuching@gmail.com

Come and enjoy and learn more about the powers of nature.

Love Life

Love Nature

Powerful Tools: Films

Day / Date: Thursday, 8 March, 2018

Time: 7:30 pm to 9:30pm

Venue: Islamic Centre, Jalan Ong Tiang Swee, Kuching

The Goethe –Institute of Malaysia in collaboration with Ministry of Education, Schulen, German-Malaysian Institute, Malaysian Nature Society, Pasch Schools, and The Association of Science, Technology and Innovation put together a large number of award winning films on nature and issues that surround it. The films entertain, educate and extend messages about the natural world. They capture the beauty and power of nature, together with threats.

About the Films

Two award winning films, will be shown in Kuching. The films are aimed at the upper secondary level and up to adults.

Bug Technology, directed by Kenichi Sugawara from Japan, highlights the amazing abilites of insects and how they are inspiring research

Wild Ways, directed by James Brundige from the United States films the conflict between human structures and the wild animals; there is hope as he then shows ways in which migration routes are incorporated into the planning.

Show Schedule

7:30 pm: Bug Technology 

8:15 pm: Wild Ways  

To register for this evening of films, reply to this email at  mnskuching@gmail.com. 

See you at the movies.

Love life

Love nature

 MNSKB Secretariat

Plight of the Helmeted Hornbill

Dear Members,

Plight of the Helmeted Hornbill

The Helmeted Hornbill is a remarkable creature. It is the largest Hornbill in Asia. It is the only Hornbill with a solid casque on its bill, used by males in mid-air head-butting contests. Unfortunately, that same casque may make the Helmeted Hornbill the Bornean bird species most likely to become extinct in the next decade.

Hornbill “ivory”, as the casque material is misleadingly known, has been a trade good between Borneo and China for centuries. From about 2012 onward, though, demand for Helmeted Hornbill casques in China has gone through the roof. Ounce for ounce, hornbill casques are now worth considerably more than elephant ivory on the Chinese black market.  As a consequence, poachers are rapidly wiping out hornbill populations in Indonesia, including in Kalimantan.  Sarawak’s populations may be next – and hornbill casques smuggled from Indonesia have already been confiscated in Kuching.  Last year, an international workshop was held in Kubah National Park to develop a global action plan to save the species.

Join us for a presentation on this remarkable bird, the threats facing its survival, and the efforts being made to save it.  Dr. Ronald Orenstein, drawing on presentations by international experts, will bring us up to date on the Helmeted Hornbill and its conservation throughout its range, and Oswald Braken Tisen will inform us about the situation here in Sarawak.  Both speakers are members of the IUCN Hornbill Specialist Group and its Working Group on the Helmeted Hornbill.

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A public talk organised by MNS Kuching Branch.

Date:    Thursday 1st March 2018

Venue:  Lower Baruk, Islamic Information Centre, Jalan Ong Tiang Swee, Kuching

Time:    7.30pm - 9.00pm

In order to facilitate seating arrangements, please reply by return email if you wish to attend the talk.

Thank you & best regards,

Audrey Dominic Neng

Secretariat

MNS Kuching