TrEES Biodiversity Centre

TrEES has also launched our Community Biodiversity programme, which includes establishing a bio-diversity resource centre at Giant Cash and Carry, USJ. The Biodiversity Outreach Centre seeks to address the growing interest the Malaysian public has for the environment and biodiversity.

The resource centre will serve as a one-stop centre on biodiversity issues for the community and is designed to educate the local community about biodiversity and the role they play in its conservation and sustainable use. The centre showcases working models on solar energy, rainwater harvesting and composting as well as a demonstration biodiversity garden. The information available will enable local communities to adopt more sustainable lifestyles in their households and businesses.

The centres will also provide the key elements needed to help the public reduce the negative impact we all have on this diversity.

Activities

• Community Recycling Centre
• Resource room – with exhibitions and educational materials on alternating biodiversity themes
• Community dialogue corner – a discussion corner to help residents solve environmental problems they face in their immediate community
• Native garden – comprising native Malaysian plants, composting system, and rain-water harvesting
• Community activities and training programmes – field-trips, environmental education training such as composting, birdwatching and organic farming

"In the end, we conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught."
- Baba Dioum, Senegalese poet

TrEES environmental awareness programmes reach out to a wide spectrum of Malaysian Society, enhancing public awareness of environmental issues and providing effective solutions for their concerns. These include developing interpretive and educational materials as well as resource materials for the community in the form of videos, manuals, booklets and posters.