C. P. R. Environmental Education Centre (CPREEC) is a Centre of Excellence in Environmental Education established by the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change (MoEF&CC), Government of India, and CPR Foundation, Chennai, in 1989. Its mandate is to raise awareness and disseminate information about the environment and its various problems. CPREEC develops innovative programmes and builds capacity in the field of education and communication for sustainable development. It endorses attitudes, strategies and technologies that are environmentally sustainable.

CPREEC established its first field office at Ooty in 1991 with the aim of conserving the ecology of the Nilgiris. The importance of the Nilgiris Biosphere Reserve has been a key theme in CPREEC’s outreach to the teachers, teacher trainees, villagers, village forest committee members, women and students. CPREEC suggested and implemented an Anti Plastic Campaign, which is organized annually at Ooty, Nilgiris. To protect the forests, CPREEC has been training the Toda, Kurumba, Kota and Irula tribes of the Nilgiris on income generation programmes and formed Forest Protection Committees with tribal youth.

CPREEC set up a Field Office in the Andaman & Nicobar Islands in 1994 and initiated environmental education in the region with the aim of protecting natural resources and promoting sustainable development. Training programmes for teachers, teacher trainees, students and women are conducted on the importance of the island ecosystem in the islands. Several exhibitions are also conducted in the islands for school students and general public. All important environmental days were observed in the Islands. During the International Biodiversity Day, signature campaigns were organized to motivate the stakeholders. CPREEC had organized water quality monitoring programmes for the tribal and non tribal students and rural farmers on soil quality monitoring.

CPREEC's work on the Andaman & Nicobar Islands is relevent to SIDS.