Given that Malaysia and Mexico are both biodiversity hotspots confronting similar challenges such as deforestation, climate change, and socio-economic impacts, her attachment gives her the chance to work with a world-renowned research team and gain insights from an established model that may serve as a guideline for the Bornean rainforest.

She looks forward to meeting expert Dr Christina Martinez-Garza and her research team where she will be attached at Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM), Mexico.

She also hopes that the attachment will expose her to novel methods which can enhance her work in Borneo and finally allow her to come up with a replicable reforestation model that can be used by everyone - the data collected using these methods will then be used to create a replicable reforestation model.

So far, based on her observation, while many forest restoration efforts have been implemented in Malaysia, there has been no large-scale assessment on studying the impacts of restoration to-date.

Therefore her research, which is aligned with the Regrow Borneo project, will focus on evaluating the impact of forest restoration by including many suitable indicators, such as forest structure, ecological function and biodiversity, as feasible to evaluate the effects of forest restoration.