More updates on our diverse collaborations!
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 from countries around the world–including Indonesia, Madagascar, Switzerland, Portugal, and Brazil–joined us to learn how these […]
Our work at the Swarovski Optik Rainforest in the Osa Peninsula!
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 crystal figures when they hear the name Swarovski, but nature enthusiasts–especially birders–salivate over the high-quality […]
We celebrated exciting anniversaries in July 2024!
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 of planting that involved local elementary school students participating in the BirdSleuth program, as well […]
I’m back in (online) class!
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 Cántaros, Harry Hull, I learned about Yale University’s Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative’s […]
We have exciting news!
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 Women Committed to the Earth, the Children’s Forest of Coto Brus, BirdSleuth, and our numerous […]
The “Forest Landscape Restoration” pillar of FCEA’s work!
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 Landscape Restoration.” Why is that important? The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) defines Forest […]
Happy 90th Birthday to Dr. Jane Goodall!
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 feel incredibly lucky that I had the opportunity to meet one of mine. The summer […]
Exciting updates about FCEA’s “Birds” pillar of work!
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 on the property for many years, through collaboration between the San Vito Bird Club, the […]
Gender is now an official pillar of our work
In honour of International Women’s Day (March 8), I am excited to announce that Gender is now an official pillar of Finca Cántaros Environmental Association’s work, along with Forest Restoration and Birds. We use these three themes as the main lenses through which to create diverse environmental education (EE) experiences for the community, as EE […]
Microorganisms of the mountain
Microorganisms of the mountain As part of our Women Committed to the Earth program, we have learned how to prepare inoculates that are used in our organic composts to apply in our forest restoration projects. These microorganisms of the mountain (MM), as they are called, represent the fungus, bacteria, yeast, and more, that result from […]
