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I was young once

Category: Research, Siew Te Wong | Date: Dec 05 2008 | By: Siew Te Wong

Yesterday as I was up dating my resume, my mentor who is also my first employer in the field of wildlife conservation, Prof Kurtis Pei from Taiwan, sent me an old photo of me taken way back in 1992 when I was working with him. This photo really brought up a lot of good memories of my younger days working in the field. Yes, I was young, energetic, and full of passion and enthusiasm to do wildlife research and conservation work.

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I was holding a radio-collared male Formosan Reeve’s muntjac at Little Ghost Lake Forest Reserve  some 2000 m above sea level. I was about to release this muntjac or barking deer after our aborigines guide caught him and I fitted him with a radio-collar. The study was the first radio-telemetry study of this species in the mountainous forest of Taiwan. It was the beginning of my life working in the forest and working with wildlife. The project pretty much changed my life and career. From then onward, I was doing nothing but to study wildlife and working closely with wild animals for the following 16 years until now. 

I know what you are thinking. Yes, it was me in the photo!

Looking back at my long list of resume, I was young once, doing what I love and doing what I believe to be the right thing to do…     

You can read more about the study at:

McCullough, D. R., K. C. J. Pei, and Y. Wang. 2000. Home range, activity patterns, and habitat relations of Reeves’ muntjacs in Taiwan . Journal Wildlife Management 64(2): 430-441.

5 Responses to “I was young once”

paula, on 05 Dec 2008

Hi Siew, aren’t you still young and full of passion?

Siggi, San Diego, on 05 Dec 2008

I was about to say the same thing as Paula!! ;-)
I think that we are as young as we believe and feel we are and as long as we keep going……nothing to stop us!!
Keep going!! ;-)

Siew Te Wong, on 05 Dec 2008

Hi, of course I am still full with energy and passion but no longer 23 years old. That’s for sure. Mature is the word. Yes, it is all the passion that keep us going and nothing can stop us! We all need to keep up our good works!

Ahimsa, on 11 Dec 2008

I met McCullogh a few years back when he visited Japan to coordinate a book about sika deer. As far as I know Japanese fellows are yet to complete the volume :-)

definitely you are still a young guy Wong (and so you look like)

Keep up the good work you are doing!

an old-looking quasi-japanese colleague

Siew Te Wong, on 15 Dec 2008

Hi Ahimsa,
Thanks for your kind words. I will sure keep that in my mind. I am looking forward to work with you soon in the forest!
Take care!
Wong

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