Conservation

Education

- for students

- for locals

- for guides + rangers

- seminar

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Although most people in North Sulawesi have been eating monkey meat at least once in their lifetime, only few have ever seen a monkey in the wild. People, therefore, lack appreciation for these animals. The recreation park bordering the Tangkoko reserve therefore offers a good opportunity for local and also international tourists to observe macaques in the wild. Since guidance is needed when approaching habituated monkeys, we advise local guides and rangers that lead tourists on how to behave towards the monkeys. Furthermore, we have designed signs put up in the park about how to behave when encountering monkeys.

Tourist activity in the park will not only influence locals, who earn from tourism, in their view of forest and wildlife, but hopefully also draw international attention to problems concerning conservation in Indonesia.