Adventures From Above
~ by Jack Ewing In 1996, at Hacienda Barú, we built a platform 32 meters above the ground at the top of an huge rainforest tree, and inaugurated the Canopy Platform tour. Even though it […]
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Langka: A Very Special Dragon
~ by Roel De Plecker We proudly announce a very rare event that took place at the park: our Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis) named Langka, the only one in Central America, laid her first eggs […]
Adventure in the Cerro Chirripó
The contrast between secondary forests and moorland proves that Cerro Chirripó has begun.
Unzipping Nature!
by Jack EwingIn his excellent book Life Above the Forest Floor, Donald Perry Ph. D. tells how he became entranced with the rainforest canopy when he was studying biology at university. There was virtually nothing […]
The Cicadas
by Cesar Barrio Amorós – Doc Frog Expeditions ~ The Sound of Summer… We all know the cicadas. But I had never heard such loud concerts as those […]
Meet Chester and Festus
by Mike Graeber These guys are Geoffroy’s Spider monkeys, the largest spider monkeys in the world. They live in remote areas of the jungle, where they move high into the trees. This makes them difficult […]
