TCE aims at giving the survival of the local biodiversity and its habitat a long-term perspective. To achieve this goal, we develop education and conservation activities for the local population (especially school interventions for young people), in order to increase their knowledge and awareness towards the crested macaques and the local biodiversity.
Tangkoko Conservation Education (or TCE), is the conservation education programme of MNP. Created in 2011, it takes place around the Tangkoko nature reserves and other protected forests of North Sulawesi (Mount Klabat and Mount Tumpa).
What we do
Our mission:
TCE aims at helping local communities of North Sulawesi (especially young people and school staff) to acknowledge the highly endangered status of the local wildlife as well as its ecological and economic importance, and to take action to protect it. The final goal is to create a powerful, sustainable and effective programme to be later on continued by locals in all the villages surrounding the reserves until threats disappear.
Questionnaire
Answering the evaluation questionnaire.
Through its local team and many volunteers, TCE implements activities around the Tangkoko reserve and other protected forests of North Sulawesi in the administrative regions of Bitung, North Minahasa and Manado. Our main work is to design and conduct school interventions for local pupils. These activities are complemented with conservation education trainings for school staff and awareness campaigns for local communities.
Illustrations
Learning about the Macaques through illustrations.
TCE’s main education methods consist in bimonthly school educational interventions, which are implemented every two weeks during 9 months in each school (one class at a time). We also organised field trips in the Tangkoko forest for the pupils to learn about crested macaques and other wildlife in their natural environment.
Observing
Learning about the Macaques through observing.
Implemented in one village initially, TCE has now successfully expanded and established its activities on a larger scale. We are proud to report that, since its creation in 2011, TCE has implemented its school activities for 4362 pupils (aged 9 to 15 years), from 22 schools in 13 villages.
We are incredibly grateful to our TCE
staff, volunteers, partners, and of course our donors, without whom none of this would have been possible!
Illustrations
Learning about the Macaques through illustrations.
Current projects
Our plan for school year 2024-2025:
We have started our 15th TCE school year (2025–2026) with even more students and schools involved, while also preparing our 6th Science Camp and Symposium!
Our 8th lesson, ‘Plastic Waste,’ is now complete and ready to be piloted, thanks to the help of Elodie Philippe (illustrator). We will also begin work on our 9th lesson, focusing on land conversion for palm
and coconut oil plantations, and how this issue can be mitigated.
We continue to look for funds to establish our own plastic recycling project, inspired by the one run by RIMBA. This initiative would reduce plastic pollution and improve sanitation in the Batu Putih area.
Please get in touch if you would like to help us make this idea a reality!
Illustrations
Learning about the Macaques through illustrations.
Locations
Our enviromental lessons
Our TCE lessons are all original and designed by the TCE team. They are presented in a booklet, combined with illustrations by a professional scientific illustrator. They include key information, games, quizzes and activities do do at home.
TCE had designed seven lessons:
Lesson 1: Environmental basics and changes over the environment;
Lesson 2: Biodiversity of tropical rainforest;
Lesson 3: Flora and fauna of Indonesia, Sulawesi, and the local forests;
Lesson 4: Primates, crested macaques and the Macaca Nigra Project;
Lesson 5: Trip to Tangkoko, observation of the crested macaques;
Lesson 6: Characteristics of protected areas, status of and threats on Indonesian protected wildlife and conservation actions;
Lesson 7: Coastal and marine ecosystem
Lesson 8: Plastic waste
Material & Downloads
Have a look at our latest newsletter regarding our 2024-2025 activities in Tangkoko (click on the picture to download the newsletter):
