– Continuing from the success of the Chiquita Nature and Community Project in Costa Rica, Chiquita established a new partnership program for biodiversity conservation. This initiative focused collaborative efforts on San San Pond Sak, an area of more than 16,000 hectares located in Bocas del Toro, Panama. The San San wetlands consist of an aggregation […]
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Hello everyone and welcome to my channel I’m Alex a.k.a. Alex The Vagabond and in this video I’m extremely excited to share with you all of the tips for Costa Rica my favorite country in Latin America. I have visited Costa Rica seven times the first time way back in 2002 when I was a […]
Narrator>>You are a good person. You spend time with your family. You work out at the gym. [Trainer: Come on push! Push!] You conserve water while showering. You like nice clothes. You give to charity. You recycle. You drive a Prius but you use your bike when you can. You enjoy the occasional distraction at […]
When he was seven years old, Jairo travelled three kilometers and a half in the woods from home to school. His first experience with sea turtles, in particular with leatherback turtles, was when he was eight years old, in his third year of school. He participated in the release of little turtles in Gandoca´s beach. […]
>>I came on this trip with the expectation of learn a lot more about animals and plants and to get to see a new country. And I did get that. I get to see some really crazy animals. I came here with the hopes to see a toucan and a sloth and I got to […]
At the coffee project is Ego Agriculture so that means you’re working with all sorts of planting, the farmers up here, have some of the most diverse farms I’ve ever seen, from fruits, and veggies and then of course, you’re working with the coffee too, depending on the time of year, picking berries, peeling, from […]
What’s that ecosystem full of clouds and mist? Where moss and lichens coexist? Rain. Wind. Altitude. It’s a cloud forest. Endemic species can subsist. Oooooh. Clouds blow by high off the ground. Trees catch the fog. Moisture falls down. Orchids, hummingbirds, so many sights. We’ve got plants on plants on plants – epiphytes. Amidst all […]
between my second and third year I spent five months in Costa Rica so that involved designing and conducting research on amphibian and reptile ecology as well as taking tissue samples in which we bar-coded once back here in It was to better understand the amphibian and reptile communities within that system in Costa Rica, […]
NOAA Fisheries Species in the Spotlight Pacific Leatherback Turtle Leatherbacks are the largest turtles on Earth, growing up to seven feet long and weighing more than 2,000 pounds. These sea turtles are among the most highly migratory animals on earth, some traveling up to 10,000 miles a year between their nesting and feeding grounds. Prevalent […]