Sabah wildlife lab gains global accreditation

SWD director Mohd Soffian Abu Bakar and Conservation Medicine director Tom Hughes after signing of the MOU for wildlife health and zoonotic surveillance.

KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah Wildlife Department (SWD) and Conservation Medicine (CM) have renewed their successful collaboration on wildlife health and zoonotic disease surveillance with the signing of a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU).

The partnership, which began in 2011, has already positioned Sabah as a regional leader in biosafety and conservation science, SWD director Mohd Soffian Abu Bakar said.