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First workshop of the new school year: The importance of the forest for wildlife
Since 2014, we have been supporting school projects, excursions into the rainforest and workshops in 3 nearby schools on the subject of the environment and sustainability in our project to protect the rainforest in Baja Talamanca together with our local partner...
Lecture “Tropica Verde conservation projects in Costa Rica – a current overview” on 16.6.2018
Our CEO Michael Ott and Tropica Verde founding member Stefan Rother traveled to Costa Rica together last year. They have visited many of our projects on site, spoken to project partners, planned new projects and gained first-hand impressions of current projects. In...
Gift store opens with new items
Are you looking for an unusual gift? How about a bag made from crocheted recycled plastic produced in Costa Rica? Need a little souvenir for nature lovers? Or maybe you've been waiting all this time for the new Tropica Verde T-shirts? Then our gift store is the right...
Reforestation planned on our new Finca Alicia property
In September 2017, after three years of hard work, we finally signed the contract for the new property, Finca Alicia, and were able to purchase it. The property is adjacent to the existing protected area and thus offers the opportunity to connect it with nearby...
Lecture on mushrooms in Monte Alto/BioFrankfurt Action Week
As part of the BioFrankfurt action week "Experience biodiversity!", mycologist and long-standing TROPICA VERDE member Prof. Dr. Meike Piepenbring will be giving a lecture entitled "Inconspicuous but indispensable - the importance of fungi in the forest development of...
The plan for the reforestation of Finca Alicia has been finalized!
The survey of our recently acquired property - Finca Alicia - is now complete and Victor, the Costa Rican forestry engineer who has been commissioned with the reforestation, has developed a plan for the reforestation: The 1.5 hectares to be planted will be divided...
Round trip to rainforest conservation projects in Costa Rica
From October to December 2017, Michael Ott, Chairman of the Board of our association, and Dr. Stefan Rother, founding member of the association and freelance photographer, spent two months in Costa Rica. The aim was to visit the current projects and our local...
Rainforest lecture in Switzerland
Our association founder, biologist and photographer Stefan Rother presents the ecology of this habitat in his live reportage Rainforest. Together with the audience, he travels into the mysterious world of these forests from Borneo to Costa Rica: Why does the...
Lecture “The return of the green macaws”, 11.6.2018
Stefan Rother (founding member of our association, biologist and photographer) will give a lecture entitled "The return of the green macaws - species and forest conservation projects in Costa Rica" on Monday, June 11, 2018. Among other things, he will present our...
