Osa Peninsula Chronicles

A Costa Rica Rainforest, Wildlife, & Sea Turtles Conservation BLOG

  • Osa Conservation Birding Trips and The Osa Peninsula Christmas Bird Count & Birding Tour

    Friends of the Osa has a handful of upcoming conservation trips with spaces available.  Read more here or go to the Conservation Trips page on our website. Osa Peninsula Christmas Birding Tour Osa Christmas Bird Count 2011 Conservation Birding Trips Osa Peninsula Christmas Birding Tour December 12 – 18, 2010 Spend 5 days/6 nights in one [...]

  • 2010 Osa Sea Turtle Volunteer Program

    We’re excited to announce that we’ve officially kicked off our 2010 Sea Turtle Conservation Program on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, Central America.  This year we are expanding the program to cover Matapalo to Carate, a total of 18 km of patrolling to protect endangered sea turtles.  In previous years, our program covered the [...]

  • The Osa Recording Project

    By Karen Leavelle & Jeff Woodman The Osa Peninsula is known for its high level of biodiversity and is one of the most “biologically intense” places on earth according to National Geographic. The Osa has over half of all species found in Costa Rica. This is evident in the over 400 bird species found here. [...]

  • Updates from the Environmental Education Program

    International Day for the Protection of Mangroves In three days in early August 2009, Friend of the Osa participated in awareness activities in Puerto Jiménez celebrating the International Day for the Protection of Mangroves. The Environmental Coalition of Puerto Jiménez delivered 50 mini waste collection centers to encourage garbage separation in households, and gave a [...]

Friends of the Osa has a handful of upcoming conservation trips with spaces available.  Read more here or go to the Conservation Trips page on our website. Osa Peninsula Christmas Birding Tour Osa Christmas Bird Count 2011 Conservation Birding Trips Osa Peninsula Christmas Birding Tour December 12 – 18, 2010 Spend 5 days/6 nights in one [...]

This is a hilarious video taken at the Greg Gund Conservation Center at Cerro Osa.  The kung-fu style fight scene starts at 37 seconds!  Check it out and pass it along to your friends.

The Costa Rican Ornithological Union’s second annual conference was held July 28 – 30th 2010 in the school of biology at the University of Costa Rica in the capital of San Jose.  The conference was dedicated to Daniel Janzen and his pioneering work in the field of conservation and reforestation in Costa Rica over the [...]

Friends of the Osa’s Environmental Education program is carrying out educational activities on the conservation of sea turtles and marine ecosystems in the schools of the Osa Peninsula. The objectives are for students to learn the importance of sea turtle conservation, why Golfo Dulce is a tropical fjord, and the ecological and scientific implications of [...]

This year we started our Sea Turtle Conservation Program with a great challenge, to expand our project to the beaches of Rio Oro and Carate on the southern side of the Osa Peninsula. With an excellent group of Field Coordinators (Geri Cubero, Erick Gomez and Greivin Barroso) and Research Field Assistants (Phoebe Edge, Heidi Montez, Courtney [...]

By: Zia Mehrabi, University of Oxford. The Osa Biodiversity Center (OBC) provided a brilliant opportunity for biological research at an accessible location bordering Corcovado National Park (CNP). CNP represents the largest remaining tract of tropical lowland forest left standing on the pacific coast of Central America. The Osa Peninsula is phytogeographically unusual with high floral species [...]

About Us

Friends of the Osa (FOO) is a nonprofit conservation organization committed to the preservation of the Osa Peninsula’s globally significant biodiversity, by ensuring the maintenance, restoration and long-term viability of the ecosystems on and around the Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica.
FOO was founded in 2003 and has offices in Washington, DC and Puerto Jiménez, Costa Rica.

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