Taste of traditional Bidayuh life for Australian expedition crew

KUCHING: A group of 16 environmental students from Deakin University in Melbourne are spending three nights at Bung Bratak, a historic Bidayuh site which was ransacked and burnt down by the Sea Dayak pirates from Skrang and Saribas some 700 years ago.

Led by associate professor John White of Deakin’s Environmental Faculty, the students aged between 19 and 30, are undertaking studies on biodiversity while working closely with the locals and also Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas)’s Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation (IBEC).