Osa Peninsula Chronicles

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 [...]

On June 17th, teachers from a number of local schools participated in a workshop on the biology, ecology and conservation of sea turtles at the Osa Biodiversity Center.  The workshop is an integrated part of Friends of the Osa’s Sea Turtle Conservation Program and was given by Pilar Bernal, FOO’s environmental education coordinator. The goal [...]

Translated from Pilar’s post After months of preparation by local students, we celebrated International Biodiversity Day in Puerto Jimenez on Saturday May 22nd.  Despite the morning rain, the opening parade went off as planned with bands playing from Saturnino Cedeño School and Puerto Jimenez High School. In the afternoon kindergartners from La Nueva Hoja School presented [...]

This past Earth Day while our staff here on the Osa Peninsula were working with local students, planting seeds in our native tree nursery, and making preparations for the upcoming sea turtle nesting season, a group of authors across the United States were supporting conservation organizations around the world. Authors for Earth Day is a national [...]

“The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. This year coincides with the 2010 Biodiversity Target adopted by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity and by Heads of State and government at the World Summit for Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002. The celebrations of the International [...]

This Sunday, April 11 at 2pm in the community of La Palma, Friends of the Osa has convened a meeting of the residents of surrounding communities for a talk on mining of gravel and sand from the rivers of the Osa.  We will be presenting the environmental impacts that large-scale extraction of gravel and sand [...]