Conservation Program

The conservation program carries out activities according to the mandate of LPPM IPB, namely research, education and community service. Research activities carried out include the population and ecology of primates inside and outside the conservation area, human and primate interactions, especially in forest and residential border areas, as well as behavior. The educational activities carried out are implementing a training program (summer course) in Conservation Biology and Global Health which can be attended by students from home and abroad. This activity was held in a semi-natural breeding facility for long-tailed monkeys (Macaca fascicularis) on Tinjil Island, Banten. This routine program that began in 1991 is a collaboration between the Center for Primate Animal Studies of IPB and the Center for Global Field Study, the University of Washington, and the Washington National Primate Research Center, University of Washington, USA. The community service activities carried out are awareness raising (outreach education program) about the importance of protecting the environment and animals to elementary school students in the Cikiruh Wetan area, Banten. This awareness program is an integrated part of the summer course activity, and in its implementation involves all participants of the activity.