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Secrets in the rainforest: what you can discover on a short trip through Costa Rica…
Lecture by Stefan Rother on 14.05.2017 at 5 pm Siesmayersaal in the Palmengarten Biologist and photographer Dr. Stefan Rother has visited Costa Rica many times in connection with the Tropica Verde project work. He often spent months traveling around the country with...
Research at Finca Curré – Lina reports
Lina, a geography student at the University of Frankfurt, is writing her Master's thesis at our Finca Curré. In the coming weeks, she will report on her research work and progress for you! Lina reports: I have now been at Ken's One World Farm, which is right next to...
Green stock exchange: Daring more nature – a city in the face of climate change
How can a fruit salad be harmful to the environment? Come to our information stand and we'll show you! The consumption of tropical fruit in Germany contributes to climate change in several ways. It is not only the long transportation routes from Costa Rica to...
Handle with Care – event for pupils in year 10 and above
Handle with Care: Active days for young people from the 10th grade on 23.4. and 30.4.2016 in Frankfurt. Join in and get involved! A continuous decline in biodiversity is being observed all over the world. is being observed. Several species are becoming extinct...
Researching in paradise – My fieldwork on the Finca Curré
It has now been six months since I explored the amphibian and reptile fauna of Costa Rica's Caribbean rainforests. Since then, I have been intensively studying the great diversity of lizards, snakes and the like in my...
Our weekend tip: ant fishing at our special offer stand in the Palmengarten
The anteater is just one of many species that urgently needs support in promoting offspring. Why? There are many reasons for this, but they all have one thing in common: they are man-made. At this year's campaign stand at the Grüne Börse in the Palmengarten Frankfurt...
If you want to be beautiful, you have to suffer! The trees in the Monte Alto bed also had to experience this during their annual pruning!
On Wednesday, November 4, 2015, the time had come: the trees of the Monte Alto bed in the Tropicarium of Frankfurt's Palmengarten literally went under the knife. With the help of a lifting platform, the trees underwent their annual pruning. Pruning is particularly...
Annual General Meeting 2017 & picture presentation by Stefan Rother
The cash management in particular was expressly praised at the Annual General Meeting in May. This praise and the DZI seal of approval show that your donations go where they are really needed. Afterwards, Stefan Rother introduced us to the secrets of the rainforest in...
Anteater seeks wife!
What is it all about? The survival of the small anteater (tamandua) in the Monte Alto region of Costa Rica is endangered. There is a lack of young talent. Why is the anteater population endangered? No distance is too far for the little anteater (Tamandua) to find his...
