We are excited to have our recent study "Using Metabarcoding Techniques to Map Multiple Dung Beetle-Vertebrate iDNA Networks in a Southeast Asian Forest" being featured in The Straits Times! The Straits Times article. Published on 24 August 2026. We demonstrated how dung beetles can be used as sources of vertebrate DNA, where we detected up to 18 native vertebrate species from the forests of Singapore's Central Catchment Nature Reserve. Moving forward, we are exploring a more

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 are delighted to share that our recent study on butterfly biodiversity in Singapore’s urban environment has been featured by NTU...

We had the amazing opportunity to contribute a commentary for The Straits Times on our recent publication in Ecology Letters, "...

On World Environment Day, we are excited to feature the TEE Lab's recent study, "Crop and landscape heterogeneity increase biodiversity...

We are thrilled to announce that two of our PhD students, Calvin Leung and Ong Xin Rui from the TEE Lab, have been featured in a...

We were delighted to be featured in The Straits Times on our dung beetle surveys in the Central Catchment Nature Reserve. We had an amazing time with journalist Ms Cheryl Tan, where we shared about the importance of dung beetles, their natural history and close links with mammal communities. The Straits Times article. Published on 20 Feb 2023. Through this article, we hope that more recognition and awareness on the importance of insects, including dung beetles, is developed a