To help improve this situation, CHICOP has over the years conducted school excursions for secondary students and their teachers to Chumbe Island. Guided by our park rangers along the nature trails in the reef and the forest, the participating children benefit greatly from the insight they gain in Marine biology, Forest ecology and Environmental protection. The excursions are in cooperation with secondary schools in Zanzibar, and consist of one-day school trips to Chumbe Island that provide informal hands-on environmental education. At the same time these trips give accompanying teachers first insight in how to teach practical field based environmental education. In this country, teachers have not been trained for linking classroom teaching to field excursions and so this is a novel and innovative approach for all concerned.