News from the Projects
Los Guardianes: Travel report by Mischa and Rasmus
Dear rainforest enthusiasts, We, Mischa Kneifel and Rasmus Rees, recent high school graduates, have been at Finca One World (cooperation partner of Tropica Verde) in Puerto Viejo de la Talamanca, Costa Rica, for 7 days now. For the next 9 months I will be volunteering...
Report from Los Guardianes – 30.12.15
Dear nature fans, here are Rasmus and Mischa, live from the Costa Rican rainforest, The new year will hold many new tasks, experiences and surprises in store for the Guardians of Finca Curré (Forest Guardians), but first we would like to report on the last few months...
The prehensile tail – fifth wheel on the wagon? Quite the opposite!
I felt similar to this anteater last year during a climbing forest course on the Wasserkuppe, when I was left hanging helplessly from a ropeway between two of the wooden platforms and could no longer go back and forth. What I would have given, like the anteater, to...
Tropical dry forest inhabitant 2016: the winning animal has been chosen!
Almost 200 votes were included in our survey. Thank you very much for this great participation! A neck-and-neck race quickly emerged between the anteater and the griffin. The anteater won the vote by just three votes, making it our 2016 campaign animal for the...
Biologist on the wrong track!
Art lessons at school must have been worthwhile for something, I thought to myself as I picked up my pencil and drawing paper during my Christmas vacation. My aim: to show you the fun facts about the anteater in an entertaining, attractive way to show you what a...
