OUR MISSION

"To develop educational resources and access to knowledge, thus empowering rainforest inhabitants and improving their decision-making processes, ensuring a more stable socio-economic future based on smart natural resource utilization."

Our Aims are to:

• Educate local rainforest populations and visitors;
• Promote sustainable natural resource development;
• Integrate pure and applied research of the rainforest environment and its natural systems; and
• Conserve and preserve tropical ecosystems.
  
  

Our Specific Objectives are to:

• Create central locations for the provision of educational resources in local population centres;
• Develop an interactive education and research centre (The Manu Learning Centre) to provide local and international students the opportunity to experience first-hand nature's classroom;
• Plan and execute research and education programmes that develop future leaders in tropical biodiversity assessment and natural resource management; and
• Establish pioneering micro-enterprise centres specialising in non-wood forest products.