Bold Indigenous Women Working for the Conservation of Orangutans in Sarawak, Borneo

Authors

  • Christina Yin Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3609

Keywords:

orangutan, Indigenous women, conservation, Borneo

Abstract

These creative non fiction stories weave the background lives of Indigenous woman who have struggled to get an education and work in conservation of Orangutans in Sarawak, Borneo.

Author Biography

Christina Yin, Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus

Christina Yin is a former broadcast journalist, news anchor, newspaper columnist and communications officer for a non-profit conservation organisation. She is also a Senior Lecturer and Associate Dean at Swinburne University of Technology, Sarawak Campus.

She has co-written and edited conservation publications including The Next 100, a manual of English and Conservation Education activities, and Orangutan Folklore and Iban Communities. Christina has published short stories in Anak Sastra and meets weekly with students in a creative writing group on campus. Apart from her teaching, Christina organises student volunteers in Swinburne’s annual conservation events and inter-school debating championship, the largest English debating tournament in Borneo.

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Published

2017-12-15

How to Cite

Yin, C. (2017). Bold Indigenous Women Working for the Conservation of Orangutans in Sarawak, Borneo. ETropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.25120/etropic.16.2.2017.3609