Hi everyone! miss me? :D. I’m Nabil I’m a research assistant at the Little Fireface Project. Long time not making a blog. Today I want to tell a story about my experience of my life from working in the field. I have chosen to work in the field because I love conservation.

Before I came to LFP and working on mammals and things about LFP, I was much to do on herpetology. I love frogs, I love reptiles, everything about herpetology. I started herpetology in 2015 at the Indonesian Institute of Science, or you can call LIPI in Bogor, Indonesia. At LIPI I was able to meet many experts of animal science who taught me many methods for the field and about taxonomy. One of them is the person who guides me in completing my Bachelor’s. First, I got a challenge to guide someone from Aichi University to East Kalimantan, who wanted to search for specific species for finishing his PhD. It was a very long journey and heavy because we walking almost 20 km to first camp. It makes us tired but very excited because this is my first time going to primary forest in East Kalimantan.

Another story, I wandered many mountains in West Java with Burung Indonesia and MMU (Manchester Metropolitan University) as a counterpart. I was a volunteer at the time, and I work for herpetology too. But not only that, but I also learnt to use about camera trap, birdwatching, mammals doing, etc. We came to six different places in the two mountains, it takes 45 days working! It was very tiring but it was fun! From the other side, I have the experience to bioacoustics too, for example, recording animals’ sound and analyzing to see how different it is because you know to differentiate a species, we can see from the pick on one call.