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Save The Date: Public lectures by founding member Stefan Rother
Stefan Rother is one of the longest active and most experienced members of our mission in Costa Rica and Germany. He has been to Costa Rica many times and knows our projects and partners like no other. He regularly provides information about the current status of our...
TUKAN – The new anniversary magazine is online
The latest issue of our member magazine "We turn the clock back 30 years and go back to 1989. A small group of biologists, journalists and photographers meet in a seminar room at the Zoological Institute in Frankfurt am Main....," the two founding members Stefan...
Hojancha – A place without a forest
The species-rich forests of Monte Alto were massively deforested in the middle of the 20th century to meet the high demand for beef. By 1976, all but 2 percent of the forest areas had fallen victim to livestock farming. The natural water cycle began to falter and the...
Threat to our forests from illegal logging!
At 80 hectares, Finca Curré is one of our larger properties in Costa Rica. It includes a valuable piece of primary forest that we were able to acquire back in 1993. Unfortunately, even in designated protected areas in Costa Rica, illegal logging continues to take...
Hope for a formerly deforested and eroded rainforest
The Monte Alto Foundation and Tropica have been working together for 25 years on the reforestation of a valley basin. The project is now bearing fruit in the truest sense of the word. You can find out exactly how and what role IGS Nordend in Frankfurt/M plays in this...
Monte Alto: Day of the tree 2019
June 14, 2019 was an important day in our current reforestation project in Monte Alto. The first 115 seedlings were planted on a previously deforested grassy area on "Arbor Day". Schoolchildren from the neighboring schools, parents, volunteers and forestry workers...
Rainforest Live Reportage in Heidelberg
Founding member Dr. Stefan Rother will be a guest at the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg on Friday. With his well-known illustrated lecture"Secrets in the rainforest - biodiversity and the protection of rainforests", he reports on our projects in Costa...
Lecture: “What is Costa Rica to us?”
Costa Rica is not just for you if you like eating bananas or pineapples! Heribert Becker, who has been supporting Tropica Verde since 2014 and has already visited our projects in Costa Rica several times, reports on pineapple and banana plantations, tropical...
Lecture “Secrets of the rainforest” at the sustainability fair in Hanau
"Do Something Green Today" - The sustainability fair by the Hanau Environmental Center and the Hanau Library gives you numerous tips on how you can protect the environment in your everyday life. At various stands and do-it-yourself workshops, you can learn how to make...
