The same as last year we cooperate with Philippine Science High School in Cebu. It is an elite school focused on science and it’s attended by students from Cebu and neighbouring islands including Bohol. A group of students of the last grade was chosen and sent to Bohol to join the Tarsius project for ten days. Student stayed in a farm close to the forest, where we have our field station. As last year we tried to involve them in all parts of the project. We shared with them not only information about tarsiers and our project but also basis of conservation and the role of conservation centres and zoological gardens. Read more »

Because of their cute appearance tarsiers are often victims of a black market and end up as a tourist attraction. We experienced such a terrible event by ourselves. One morning at the end of May a couple brought tarsiers to the Simply Butterfly Conservation Centre which is a partner of Tarsius project and where I stay. They offered them for sale.

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