A specialized nature-guide & wildlife photographer based in East Sabah, actively engaged in community-based wildlife conservation programs.
Razis @ Atteh – a specialized nature-guide and wildlife photographer in Sabah.
Razis Nasri @ Atteh
Growing up with nature, I am passionate towards wildlife and conservation. After finishing high school, I worked with KOPEL, an exemplary community-owned eco-tourism cooperative in Lower Kinabatangan, Sabah. I’ve developed most of my knowledge on wildlife and their habitats during my 10-year work with the cooperative. After KOPEL I’ve continued my career with a travel agency and was mostly based in Danum Valley Conservation Area for 8 years (2012-2019). I am currently a freelance nature guide with focus on wildlife in East Sabah and still actively volunteer with KOPEL.
Some interesting facts about me:
Been a nature guide since 2012 until now.
Obtained a nature guide license with Ministry of Tourism Malaysia in 2014.
Awarded as the Top Three Best Nature Guide organized by Malaysia Tourism Award in 2017.
Been a freelance nature guide since the COVID-19 outbreak.
Actively involved in lake restoration and tree planting projects under KOPEL, based in my home village.
If you are interested in exploring rainforest, feel free to follow my instagram for my work or write in to discuss how we might co-create something just for you . I will do my best to share my knowledge and experience with you.
Sharing in my backyard: guiding in Kinabatangan River, the longest river of Sabah.From river to the sea: photographing rare Irrawady Dolphin in Cowie Bay, Tawau.Take nothing but memory: I love doing specialized wildlife photography tour, where I can share the best places to photograph rare, unique wildlife of Sabah.Sharing is caring: while bringing guests to explore for mammals and birds in Borneo rainforests, I enjoy sharing what I know about their behaviors.Mountain adventure: explore Trus Madi, the 2nd highest mountain of Sabah, with the community of Sinua.Rigging for rainforest: I have also helped in the documentary making of Rona Sabah, a TV program under RTM regarding sustainable logging at Deramakot in 2021.Bird whisperer: during the lockdown of 2020, I have befriended a Bornean Ground Cuckoo, a rare endemic of Borneo, and learnt a great deal about their behaviors.From the top to the bottom of canopy: I enjoy looking out for birds in the rainforest, and sharing what I know about them with my guests.From carnivores to herbivores: I enjoy looking out for mammals in the rainforest, and sharing what I know about them with my guests.Watching and photographing the primates in Kinabatangan area is one of my favorite activities.Herpetofauna: night is my favorite time, when I can bring my guests to explore and photograph the macro world of amphibians and reptiles.Macrophotography: night is my favorite time, when I can bring my guests to explore and photograph the macro world. Many spectacles, like these bioluminescent mushrooms, spiders and insects, are only active after sunset.KOPEL Volunteer Program – tree planting: it gives me great satisfaction to help plant trees in degraded riparian forest of Lower Kinabatangan River.Wetland Restoration – Tungog Lake of Pin Supu Forest Reserve is infested with Salvinia molesta, an exotic and noxious water weeds.KOPEL Volunteer Program – wetland restoration: it gives me great satisfaction to help clear the lake of exotic weeds.
(All photos by Razis Nasri, all rights reserved. Original text by Razis Nasri, edited by M.S. Khoo.)
