P-WEC News

Saturday, 5^th May 2012; the third grade students of an elementary school called Sekolah Dasar Negeri (SDN) Tunjungsekar 1 Malang; visited ProFauna’s education center or Petungsewu Wildlife Education Center (P-WEC). There were 78 children of 8 to 9 years old learning about nature conservation in the center and having fun at the same time.

"Yay! Let’s go to the woods!", the local children of the villages nearby P-WEC (Petungsewu Wildlife Education Center), ProFauna’s education center, exclaimed when they were told that P-WEC team would take them to the Bedengan Woods on 26 April 2012. On the sunny Thursday, P-WEC educators took the children from two elementary schools, SDN Kucur 3 and SDN Petungsewu 2 of Dau District – Malang Regency, to learn about nature conservation while having fun in the woods.

Petungsewu Wildlife Education Center (P-WEC) commemorated the Earth Day on 22 April by holding a training of plastic waste recycling for the villagers of the villages nearby the center. Attended by 70 housewives coming from Kucur, Petungsewu, Selokerto, and Tegalweru Villages; the keynote speakers were Mr. and Mrs. Samsul; who go by one name like most Indonesians. The couples are environmental activists and artists.

P-WEC (Petungsewu Wildlife Education Center), ProFauna’s education center, was attended by 25 kindergarten teachers on 9 – 11 March 2012 to have fun outbound and internal activities. The outbound which was facilitated by P-WEC’s experienced members, consisted of teamwork building and communications games.

The Control Division of Forest Ecosystem (abbreviated and known as PEH) officers of Merubetiri National Park that is located in East Java, learned more about wildlife conservation in ProFauna's education center called Petungsewu Wildlife Education Center (P-WEC) from 21^st to 23^rd February 2012.

More than 70 children of a primary school called SDN Percobaan 1 Malang joined the fun outbound (outward bound) in P-WEC on 21 January 2012. In the event, they learned about nature conservation through some fun games and outbound activities. One of the games that they really enjoyed was the introduction into food chains and webs which was completely different from what they got from school.

Staff members, workers, and their family members of PT PAL Surabaya held a family gathering in Petungsewu Wildlife Education Center (P-WEC) in the end of January 2012. Their children had so much fun following the nature education and fun outward bound led by P-WEC team. In the educational games, the children were introduced to river pollution in fun ways. The children who rarely see various trees in their surroundings in the city were also introduced to some local trees grown in P-WEC. They were really excited to know some trees which they knew the fruits but not the trees.

In the two-day activities, the children learned about river ecosystem, pollution, and introduction to insects.

Different from other trainings held elsewhere, the training was held in nature education and outbound activities as led by P-WEC's experienced educators and facilitators.

They were representatives of El- Shinta, a national radio station, a Trans 7, a national television station, and Tempo, a national publication. During the regular discussion, Green Hang Out; they shared their experiences in publishing and broadcasting journalistic works of nature conservation.