We place environmental education at the centre of our work because it is one of the most important tools in our toolkit for addressing the interconnected ecological and social challenges of our times.
As highlighted by UNESCO, “Education, in short, is humanity’s best hope and most effective means in the quest to achieve sustainable development.”
In March we successfully conducted the first of our three planned "MoSI" (which stands for overwinter survival monitoring in Spanish) bird banding pulses for 2025! As you may already know, we conducted three pulses last year, and have compiled a…
Thank you so much to Jacob Slusser for sharing his time and extensive knowledge with us in the Azuero Peninsula of Panama! Jacob Slusser, MSc, is the Global Training Landscapes Manager of the Water Center for the Humid Tropics of Latin America…
It was such a pleasure to have Dr. Amanda Rodewald of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and her PhD student, Jenna Brewer, with us at Finca Cántaros last month, setting up Jenna’s research on Finca Cántaros sites such as "Bosque…
The Sansonetti family and the Asociación Ambiental Finca Cántaros are pleased to make an exciting announcement! The Asociación has acquired 52 hectares from the Sansonettis, that connects to the Asociación’s existing Finca Cántaros property. The acquisition was made possible thanks…
Last year, FCEA was incredibly grateful to all the generous people who helped support more tree growing in our Children’s Forest of Coto Brus, part of our forest landscape restoration pillar. This year, we hope to continue counting on your generosity to further expand…
Our gender pillar is reflected in our longest-standing environmental education program, Women Committed to the Earth. One of the areas of work within this program is a collaboration with the "Network of Community Tree Nurseries" run by Rocío Seisdedos of our partner organization, Soy Conservación. FCEA and Soy Conservación submitted a joint proposal to the Ford…
We were honoured to be invited by the global restoration platform, Restor.eco, to speak about using the eBird and Merlin apps of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in ecological restoration projects!During our one-hour talk on September 18th, more than 50 people…
In early August, part of Finca Cántaros Environmental Association’s BirdSleuth environmental education team had the pleasure of working with families in the community of Los Mogos of the Osa Peninsula,at the Swarovski Optik Rainforest property!(Important sidenote: many people think of…
In July, FCEA celebrated two very important anniversaries: the one-year anniversary of our women-run tree nursery, Bellota, and the five-year anniversary of the Children’s Forest of Coto Brus! We also extended the reach of the Children's Forest with a morning…
Environmental education is at the core of everything we do, and our three main pillars of work are forest landscape restoration, birds and gender.And speaking of education, I’m back in (online) class!Thanks to one of the former owners of Finca…
Finca Cántaros Environmental Association
1km south of San Vito Hospital
San Vito, Puntarenas Province
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