Tayna Center for Conservation Biology (TCCB)
Content: 
         Introduction
         Goals of the TCCB 
         Costs:
         A. The budget of construction
         B. Education staff
         C. Transport materials 
                          and miscellaneous    


Content: 
         Introduction
         Goals of the TCCB   
Introduction:

The Democratic Republic of Congo has a lot of local community sites in its area with a considerable biological diversity, some times rare or unique in the world, making up a sanctuary of rare species such as gorillas, chimpanzees, okapis,…, rivers with a lot of fish, but also a luxuriant flora, a real laboratory of varied medicinal plants.

Anxious of the menaces on these sites because of a high population growth leading to the overexploitation of natural resources able to create ecological disturbances that will accentuate in term the vulnerability of the people’s dynamics;

Considering the deep lack of technicians in the conservation domain and seeing that school institutions of this domain in the region are still rare, the Tayna Gorilla Reserve has devoted itself to open an important and first institution of this type to prepare the replacement of the competent native managers and to cover this great lack.

The idea of the TCCB creation was born from a need felt, that of educating managers in conservation sciences, in a general assembly of the Tayna Gorilla Reserve’s partner associations after the delegates from these associations have evaluated et noticed that there was a serious lack of managers able to manage their different projects technically and scientifically.

From what is said above, the TCCB has set to itself the following goals:
to educate and organize the biodiversity defense teams thanks to an education of quality to conserve and manage rationally the existing resources.
  • to ensure a scientific and professional education for the management and the protection of the areas with ecosystems in danger of overexploitation.
  • to contribute  to the education of  the youth  in the milieu by the identification of environmental problems.
  • to lead researches and make a database on the ecosystems, rare and endangered species.
  • to collect and deal with information on the biodiversity  promoting the structures of the lasting management for the natural resources
  • to favour a lasting structure for experience exchange between young managers and field technicians for the development of the eco-tourism industry for the local people interests
  • to educate people  in the forest  for the  active participation to find solutions to the problems of environment making them theirs.
 
TCCB conducts its activities in conjunction with the
Government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo through its
Ministry of Education and Scientific Research, its Ministry of
Environment and its Ministry of Justice. Upon its creation, TCCB
comprised three departments:
• Research and conservation biology;
• Conservation and management of protected areas;
• Education, communication and information.
For the first year of the course, the academic year 2004–2005,
these departments initially operated in Go Goma. One hundred
scholarship students were recruited through various UGADEC
member associations, namely:

  • RGT: Réserve des Gorilles de Tayna / Tayna gorilla reserve
  • RECOPRIBA: Reserve Communautaire des Primates de Bakumbule
  • ILSN: Initiative Locale pour la Sauvegarde de la Nature
  • RGPU: Réserve des Gorilles de Punia
  • REGOUWA: Réserve des Gorilles d’Utunda et Wassa
  • COCREFOBA: Conservation Communautaire pour la Réserve Forestière de Bakano
  • ACPN-IM: Action Communautaire pour la Protection de la Nature – Itombwe Mwenga.
  • RGU : Reserve des Gorilles d’USALA
About the recruitment, we have taken a number of 300 candidates not only from UGADEC associations as follows:
 
N°ASSOCIATIONSNUMBER OF CANDIDATES
1
RECOPRIBA12
2
ILSN
6
3
RGU
10
4
RGPU
6
5
REGOUWA 
4
6
COCREFOBA
6
7
 RGT
14
8
ACPN-IM6
9
ISEC scholarship recipients taken back  to TCCB6

Total
70

      
To execute this program of the courses, we have considered 14 teachers and professors for the whole education period. Among them 6 professors, 3 chefs de travaux and 5 assistants.

The administrative personnel is constituted  of 22  employees

As it can be seen, the TCCB is a basic and essential backing institution for the lasting community development by and for the material and scientific interest of the local people living in and  around the protected areas and also for the interest of other national parks and the international community.