It is crucial for every conservation project to attract local people that are responsible for nature protection to join the conservation efforts. Therefore, when I was choosing a locality for our next research during this year, the possibility of cooperation with local organizations played an important role. There are two protected landscapes around Bilar so this area attracts interests of conservationists. We got great support in Simply Butterflies Conservation Centre which belongs to highly visited tourist spots here on Bohol island for several years. It brought us possibility to share information about tarsiers and our project with visitors.

Another important institution involved in the project is Bohol Island State University here in Bilar. In fact, our research is being done in forest managed by the university. We would be very happy if local researchers and student join our project and get practical experiences and hopefully continue in conservation activities in the future. So we were pleased when we were asked to prepare presentation for students and teachers of all subject related to research and nature conservation. On 24^th February we had the presentation Radiotelemetry and conservation of threatened species of the world together with Lubomír Peške. Lubomír introduced the use of various technologies in research of different behavioural aspects especially in birds and then we followed with presentation about the Tarsius project. The audience was interested in the presentation. This semester is ending here in the Philippines, so we hope to attract some students of pre-final year to join us during or after the holidays.

We were lucky yesterday again and with help of skilful local hunter we succeed to catch another tarsier female and radio-collar her. This female unfortunately does not have the adoptive parent yet and also the name. Join our tarsier adoption and support radio-tracking of the Philippine tarsier. Your contribution of 4 thousand CZK (150 euro) will help us to pay the cost of one radio-collar. As a reward you will receive detail information about life of this animal, colourful picture of the Philippine Tarsier, video and audio recordings and actual information about movements of “your” tarsier that we will collect in the field. The lifespan of battery in the radio-collar is lesser then one year, so we will have to change the radio-collars. However, you can enjoy the benefits of an adoptive parent during the whole period of study of “your” tarsier! Tarsius Project account.

We are happy to inform you that a first tarsier caught for the research purpose wears a radio-collar. We caught a young female last week with the help of local hunters. This female has already an adoptive parent and he named her Theia. We follow Theia every night since the last Sunday and we hope that we will catch more tarsiers soon. Unfortunately, we do not have adoptive parents for them yet. If you want to support our project, this is a way how to do it. Please find more information here.