The Tropical Ecology and Entomology (TEE) Lab  at the Asian School of the Environment, College of Science, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, was recently featured on  Channel News Asia (CNA)  for its work on the AMBER Project  — AI and Automated Monitoring of Insects (AMI)  — showcasing how artificial intelligence is being integrated into biodiversity monitoring in Singapore. Developed through a collaboration between the Alan Turing Institute , the UK Centre

Our recent study, Towards red listing understudied tropical insects: A case study of the dung beetles of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo , has been featured in East Malaysia's daily newspaper, The Borneo Post ! We thank Dr Arthur Chung and Datuk Frederick Kugan for the opportunity to contribute this article in collaboration with the Sabah Forestry Department. Check out the article and our publication in these links: Study puts Sabah’s dung beetles on the global con­ser­va­tion map To

We hosted Dr Thary Gazi Goh in February 2026 to investigate and describe a potential new species of dung beetle from Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia. It was a great opportunity for knowledge exchange and international collaboration in the region -- read more to find out what we actually did! :)

The Tropical Ecology and Entomology (TEE) Lab at the Asian School of the Environment, College of Science, Nanyang Technological University recently conducted fieldwork in the peat swamp forests of Brunei Darussalam—an ecosystem that is both ecologically unique and critically important for carbon storage and biodiversity conservation. Left: Retrieving the leaf-litter bag from the peat swamp forest; Right: Behind every dataset is a strong field team. Thankful for the dedicat

The IUCN Red List is the most authoritative source of the extinction risk of species and is widely used to inform conservation actions. However, tropical insects are very much under-represented in the Red List due to multiple reasons: limited data on species distributions and trends, difficulties in applying the Red List Criteria, lack of coordination between tropical entomologists and the IUCN structures responsible for publishing official assessments. In our latest publica