Osa Peninsula Chronicles

We want to do our part to remind our friends to show your solidarity, take a stand against climate change and turn off your lights for one hour starting at 8:30pm this Saturday March 27th, 2010.  While you’re at it, go ahead and unplug all your appliances, and close your laptop – yes, that’s cheating. [...]

Info on three different student groups hosted at the Osa Biodiversity Center in Osa Peninsula in 2009. The Herpetology classes of the University of Costa Rica and Universidad Nacional led by professors Federico Bolaños and Marco Barquero, plus the Natural History and Zoology classes of the Universidad Latina, led by professor Luis Sandoval.

Here are two of the research projects sponsored by and carried out at the Osa Biodiversity Center in 2009. Biochar Trials Friends of the Osa hosted Tyler Reynolds from Purdue University and Ross Eustis from Whitman College this past summer to conduct biochar soil amendment trials in coordination with the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación [...]

Roy Toft and Trond Larsen will be releasing their new book, Osa: Where the Rainforest Meets the Sea, in San Jose on Thursday March 11th .  The event is at Libreria Internacional in Multiplaza in Escazu at 6:30pm. If you can make it down to the Osa a few days later, there will be another [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]