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

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

From 8 to 18 Dec 2025, Zann and Marx visited Kuala Lumpur to study Peninsular Malaysia’s dung beetles, supporting research on Singapore species. Exploring collections at Universiti Malaya and FRIM with Dr Thary Gazi Goh revealed new insights into taxonomy, ecology, and natural history. We are grateful for this opportunity to visit and look forward to future collaboration - terima kasih!