Sleeping in untamed jungles may not be everyone’s cup of tea but for tiger scientist Dr Kae Kawanishi, it made her realise her purpose in life.
Kawanishi, the co-founder of the Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (Mycat), came to Malaysia in 1998 to research the ecology of Malayan tigers under a University of Florida PhD programme. She has been studying the big cats in New and Old World rainforests for three decades now.