The Tampakan Field Trials and Research Station (FTRS) was established in 2005 and plays an important role in managing the project’s reforestation program. The Tampakan FTRS also provides community training programs such as vermiculture, animal husbandry, eel farming, coconut and coffee propagation and management and plant nursery management. In 2007, these programs were attended by over 180 community participants. A second FTRS was established at Kiblawan in the eastern area of the project in 2007.

As part of the Tampakan Project’s efforts to raise environmental and biodiversity awareness within the community, we are breeding at the Tampakan FTRS butterfly and stick insects native to the project area. Sample species of these insects are currently on display at a terrarium in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources Central Office in Manila.