A group of 8th graders from Crane Country Day School recently traveled to Costa Rica and fell in love with the country during their ten day stay. The class of forty students ventured all the way from Santa Barbara, California to the Osa Peninsula! Once the students made it back to California, they realized they [...]
Archive for the ‘Reforestation’ Category
Lately we have been seeing Crested Guans (Penelope purpurascens) along the road up in the trees heading up to Friends of the Osa’s Osa Biodiversity Center at Cerro Osa. I first noticed a family of 4 Guan individuals in one of our forest restoration plots a few weeks back as I was conducting bird counts. [...]
Lending Nature a Helping Hand The Cerro Osa Reforestation Project Cerro Osa’s local staff, Juan and Agustín Mendoza, worked hard in 2009 to improve Friends of the Osa’s native tree nursery. We now have more than 4,000 seedlings of over 40 native species. Seeds are collected by hand from the mature forest of the Osa [...]
categories: Cerro Osa, Friends of the Osa, Osa Biodiversity Center, Osa Peninsula, Programs, Reforestation
Welcome to the new weblog of Friends of the Osa. Here we will post news and updates about our programs, activities and important developments affecting the ecology and wildlife of the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, Central America. Friends of the Osa (FOO) also known as Amigos de Osa, runs a research station and field [...]
categories: Feature, Friends of the Osa, Osa Biodiversity Center, Osa Peninsula, Programs, Reforestation, Sea Turtles, Wildlife
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