EDUCATION
We have provided nearby communities with
free environmental education programs since 1999.
Tirimbina has provided free environmental education for nearby public schools for 20 continuous years. The funds obtained from ecotourism activities provide financial support for transportation and food, thus ensuring that all students are able to participate.
Currently, Tirimbina is working with an innovative environmental education program called “Amigos del Bosque” (Forest`s friends). The program is based on an inclusive, intergenerational, cooperative and healthy competition approach. So we are working with children, youth, families, adults and older adults. The methods and themes worked on, have been developed to allow a process that goes from awareness to action, in such a way, people with the ability to solve environmental problems, make decisions and develop pro-environmental behavior can be trained.
In addition, Tirimbina also receives groups of students of all ages, from elementary school to college, who visit the reserve to carry out several activities. These groups also collaborate with the financing of local school groups, while taking advantage of our facilities, lectures and educational activities:
The Tirimbina environmental education program "Forest´s Friends" had its pilot plan in 2022 and began to be formally executed in 2023
From Tirimbina to the community
We work with selected local communities in the Tirimbina's direct area of influence, the program is free for them and financed with ecotourism funds.
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Infographic about the environmental education program.
Friends of all ages
We work with people of a very large range of ages: children, youth, adults and seniors.
Tirimbina's environmental education programs are offer free of charge only to people from the community within the reserve's area of influence. The current "Amigos del bosque" program includes not only visits from schoolchildren, as had been the previous approach, but also includes visits from school students, families and older adults. Amigos del bosque aims to collaborate in the transition from awareness to action, which is why it also includes visits by Tirimbina staff to the participating educational centers, to implement solutions to the environmental problems about which they have been sensitized during their visit to our forest.
Our trajectory in environmental education has only been interrupted during the year 2020 and 2021, in which the pandemic managed to put the visits on hold, but not our creativity, to expand the audiences of environmental education to those that today we include as "Friends of the forest".
COURSES
Tirimbina offers short courses on topics related to the conservation of tropical forests, aimed at ecotourism guides, natural science students, nature resource managers and anyone interested in learning more about biodiversity, or natural heritage conservation. Our courses are given in Spanish and normally offered once a year, between September and November. Check the calendar to see if there are courses that are planned to be held soon in Tirimbina.
