Shavez Cheema

Shavez Cheema is the founder of 1StopBorneo Wildlife and a naturalist with a particular interest in frogs, mammals, snakes and birds. He started his journey in conservation in 2011. He supervises the organisation’s scientific and sustainable tourism projects; his academic background is in anthropology and tourism. His main passion is saving wildlife in dynamic new ways such as helping elephants in plantations, training ex-poachers to be nature guides, working on dolphins with fishermen turned guides and helping pangolins from rescues to be tourism assets.