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.”
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…
Our very exciting news is that the Canadian non-profit Finca Cantaros Environmental Association is now a registered Canadian charity. Among its other activities, it will be supporting many of the impactful programs of the Asociación Ambiental Finca Cantaros such as…
Last month I talked about the “Birds” pillar of FCEA’s work, and this month the focus is our “Forest Landscape Restoration” pillar! You might notice something is slightly different: we changed the name of this pillar from “Forest Restoration” to"Forest…
Happy 90th birthday to one of the most inspirational women of our times! I have looked up to Dr. Jane Goodall since I was a little girl, and although there is a saying that goes “never meet your heroes,” I…
This month’s blog is all about the “Birds” pillar of FCEA’s work! We have a lot to celebrate in this area. Since the founding of the organization in 2020, we have wanted to resume the bird banding that took place…
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