YANG Jianhuan::Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden

Fauna Conservation Department - Kadoorie Conservation China Programme

Fauna Conservation Flora Conservation Conservation by Site Ecological Advisory Programme Collaborative Research in KFBG’s Nature Reserve Researchers Facilities

YANG Jianhuan

Senior Conservation Officer

Fauna Conservation Department - Kadoorie Conservation China Programme

jhyang@kfbg.org

Jianhuan received his Bachelor’s degree in Ecology from Sun Yat-sen University, where he began his research career in herpetology. His research interests are taxonomy, ecology and conservation of amphibians, reptiles and mammals of the Indo-Burma Biodiversity Hotspot. He is an experienced field researcher and has been conducting biodiversity surveys in China and Cambodia for over a decade, which explains why he serves as a member of IUCN SSC Snake Specialist Group and a regular assessor for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, and a species expert for the Endangered Species Scientific Commission of China. He has so far described over 30 amphibians and reptiles new to science. He also serves as a volunteer reviewer for the scientific journals PeerJ, Zootaxa, Zoological Research, Asian Herpetological Research, Journal of Natural History etc.

Selected publications:

Yang, J.H., Li, K.W. , Yeung, H.Y., Au,T.K., Zheng, X., Giordano, A.J. & Chan, B.P.L. (2022). Population density and activity patterns of the leopard cat (Prionailurus bengalensis) in southern China: estimates based on camera-trapping data (in Chinese with English abstract). Biodiversity Science.

Yang, J.H. & Poyarkov, N. (2021). A new species of the genus Micryletta (Anura, Microhylidae) from Hainan Island, China. Zoological Research, 42: 234−240.

Yang J.H., Huang, X.Y., Jin, S.H. & Chan B.P.L. (2020). Filling a longstanding knowledge gap: population size and conservation status of the Endangered Gaoligong Hoolock Gibbon (Hoolock tianxing) in Houqiao Town, Yunnan. Global Ecology and Conservation, 24: e01347.

Yang J.H. & Chan B.P.L. (2020). Distribution, Status, and Ecology of the Water Monitor (Varanus Salvator) on Hainan Island, and the Role of Folklore in its Conservation. Herpetological Conservation and Biology, 15(2): 427–439.

Yang, J.H. & Chan, B.P.L. (2018). A new phytotelm-breeding treefrog of the genus Nasutixalus (Rhacophoridae) from western Yunnan of China. Zootaxa, 4388 (2): 191–206.

Yang, J.H., Zeng, Z.C. & Wang, Y.Y. (2018). Description of two new sympatric species of the genus Leptolalax (Anura: Megophryidae) from western Yunnan of China. PeerJ, 6: e4586.

Yang, J.H. & Chan, B.P.L. (2015). Two new species of the genus Goniurosaurus (Squamata: Sauria: Eublepharidae) from southern China. Zootaxa, 3980(1): 067–080.