| Tasikoki has been established as a facility to enable the confiscation of animals from illegal wildlife traders and smugglers. Tasikoki’s rescue team assists the authorities by investigating wildlife crimes and providing evidence to aid prosecution. The animals, the victims of this trade, can find safe refuge at the rescue centre and begin a rehabilitation programme so that they can be released back to the wild where suitable habitat is available | One of the key factors in wildlife conservation is that of education. In Indonesia very few schoolchildren, especially in cities, feel close to animals or nature. They only know animals and nature from an incidental program on television and often there they see how rich persons have wildlife as pets | Our Local Ecology Unit will commence with volunteer projects in the beginning of 2011, to help protect and restore the nature in and surrounding Tasikoki.We are currently developing projects in partnership with local organisations, institutions and dive resorts covering the following aspects: |