Gabriele Schaar-von-Römer on projects, educational work and flora & fauna in Costa Rica Go to the (video) podcast "Auf die Palme gebracht" The Palmengarten's video podcast "Auf die Palme gebracht" highlights various topics and exciting aspects of the Palmengarten...
Knowledge, animals, plants
All banana or what? Pollution of the Sixaola River by pesticides
All banana or what? Interesting and critical facts about a crooked thing This was the headline above an article by our project coordinator Dr. Stefan Rother, which appeared in the 1999 TROPICA VERDE SPECIAL about banana cultivation in Costa Rica - still very topical,...
What is the Supply Chain Act to us?
Are you interested in volunteering at Tropica Verde? In this interview, Lilith gives us a little insight into her experiences as a volunteer in our association – what she does, where she has been and how she found her way to us. Read now!
Climate change causes species extinction in Costa Rica
The advancing climate change is already causing problems in Costa Rica. In the Monteverde cloud forest in the mountains of Costa Rica, the most important feature is increasingly absent due to climate change - the fog. This has devastating consequences for the plant...
Arribada – The arrival of the sea turtles
Every year between July and December, an extraordinary natural spectacle takes place on the Costa Rican Pacific coast: Thousands of olive ridley turtles gather near the shore a few days before the new moon and then land almost together within 5 days on the beach...