This year, the 18th Environmental Education Race (EERace) has once again chosen BSBCC as one of the pit stop for their race. The EERace is an environmental education programme held annually in the heart of Borneo districts of Sabah. It is organized by the Rainforest Discovery Centre (RDC) under the Sabah Forestry Department, together with many government and private organizations. The aim of the race is to enhance and deepen teacher's knowledge and experiences on the environment.Our course, called the EERace, features 80 % outdoor activities, participant-centred learning, group effort and interesting environment-related assignments. The participants of this race are secondary school’s principals around Sabah. This race started from the 17th of July 2017and will end on the 22nd of July 2017. On the July 19th, 2017 the team has arrived at our centre. All of the participants has no idea on their next destinations and what they will be doing. At BSBCC, the partipants were given a pre assignment where they need to guess the bear’s food. After that, they were given a short talk on BSBCC’s roles and effort in sun bear conservation. Later, they also did bear’s observation on the observation platform. Their next task is where they were required to act as a bear being locked up in a cage! The purpose of this activity is to allow the participants to experience what it feels like to be badly treated by people who visits displayed animals. After this session, they were asked to share their experience to everyone. The creativity of the participants were tested by asking them to create bear’s enrichment using natural materials such as ginger leaves, ropes, fruits and honey. At the end of their activity at BSBCC, the participants were asked to answer a simple question, to test their understanding on the whole activity they went through – related to sun bear’s conservation. It was great to see all of them enjoyed their time at our centre. We look forward for more exciting activities on next EERace! See you again!
After the participants completed the pre-assignment, they will be given a card for their next task.
Ramsar Group
Guessing bear's food from the Aussie Dog Ball
Talk on BSBCC’s roles and effort in sun bear conservation by Gloria
The participants doing bears observation on the observation platform; they were asked to record the bear's behaviours in a form.
Sharon doing short briefing to the participants before 'Bear Acting' session
Participants asked to stay in small cage for them to experience what it feels like to be badly treated by people who visits displayed animals
Participants asked to stay in small cage for them to experience what it feels like to be badly treated by people who visits displayed animals
Bear enrichment session by Jeremy, assisted by our bear keepers Roger and David
Roger doing demonstration and explaination before the participants make enrichment on their own.
Hands on activity: creating bear's enrichments
Done!
Completed enrichments - all made by the participants
Jeremy gave a short briefing before the next task
Group photo before they head to the next destination. Good luck!
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