The Sepilok Junior Ranger Programme was launched on the 11th November 2006 for children of the staff of the Sabah Forestry and Sabah Wildlife Departments residing in Sepilok. The Sepilok Junior Rangers (SJRs) are aged from 9 to 17 years old. The programme’s main ain is to instil a caring attitude towards the RDC and the environmental as a whole amongst the SJRs.

Launching of Sepilok Jr Ranger

Numerous EE activities were conducted for the SJRs at the RDC. In the recent years, they were trained to conduct EE activities for the general public during Sabah Forestry Department’s public exhibition in Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan.

More than twenty SJRs were trained to conduct two international children’s conference at the RDC, the first being the 6th YAWA-SEEN International Children Conference on the Environment (June 2009) and the second was the recent Asian Wetland School Network Exchange Programme (March 2011). They also conducted the Children’s Bird Camp during the 2nd Borneo Bird Festival in October 2010. These were all done to train the SJRs in planning, organising and conducting certain activities during the events, to enhance leadership qualities and to improve communication skills.