
This program offers students a unique zoo experience in which they get an opportunity to learn and practise scientific skills of observing animal behaviour, designing and implementing enrichment devices that will help encourage natural behaviours in captive animals.
This residential program offers students a unique opportunity to partner in an on-going conservation program to rehabilitate and release orang-utans into the Matang Wildlife Centre, Sarawak.
In this educational experience that is embedded in an on-going programme, students actually engage with people seriously committed to rehabilitation of rescued orang-utans and sun bears and get an opportunity to examine the holistic interplay of habitat parameters, needs of animal species and cohabitant humans. Students will also visit Semenggoh Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre, the Sarawak herbarium and meet some of the indigenous people in this region.
Situated along the Lower Kinabatangan, Borneo this program offers students a glimpse of some key endangered species – orang-utans, proboscis monkeys, pygmy elephants, crocodiles, gibbons, western tarsiers and many endemic birds – and also an opportunity to participate in on-going conservation projects for the pygmy elephants and the habitat of wildlife.
The students will partner in a vital project called the Corridor of Life (WWF) to link fragmented forests along the river banks offering migratory paths to elephants, orang-utans and other endangered species. Students will benefit from valuable social interactions as they will reside in village homes and local B&Bs. The programme includes a visit to Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre and the Rainforest Discovery Centre.