Wheter helping to develop national leadership in conservation, or in training government staff to better manage protected areas, investment in people is critical to the long-term sustainability of conservation efforts.

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The ‘Complete Conservationist’ Training Program

Building Future Conservationists through Scientific Training

Conservation Training and Resource Center

The ‘Complete Conservationist’ Training Program

Seagrass training helps people to better
understand its conservation value.

Professional conservationists must have a full suite of skills to deal with conservation problems. WCS’s Complete Conservationist Training Program provides local post-graduate professionals with standardized curriculum that enables them to ask critical questions and formulate solutions to conservation problems. The program teaches science, field skills, project formulation and proposal writing data collection and analysis, GIS, scientific an popular writing, public presentation, awareness, an administration and finances. Trainees are evaluated on a monthly basis through examinations an stringent reviews. The evaluations then provide  basis for a trainee’s position within the program, providing tough but fair incentives for trainees to develop their skills.

Building Future Conservationists through Scientific Training

WCS have trained more than 700 students, Forestry staff, local NGOs, and community members in the more than a decade that WCS has been in Indonesia. Undergraduate, graduate, and junior faculty conduct a variety researc projects under WCS’s supervision; forestry guards and local NGOs receive training on field skills and management principles; community members receive training on awareness techniques and field skills. The facilities – study plots, trails, laboratory, library, and workspace – at our field sites allow hands-on field training to take place. Built in 1997, Way Canguk Research and Training Center in Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, Sumatra, is one of the largest and the most complete research station in Indonesia. With greater field presence through our training program and long-term monitoring and conservation activities, WCS is working to develop Indonesian conservation leaders and protect wildlife and wild places.

School children learn the importance of protecting wildlife.

Conservation Training and Resource Center

Way Canguk Research Station located in Bukit Barisan Selatan
National Park is the staging area for research and training.