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 Finca Curré, for more than 2 weeks. The latter is my area of investigation. During these two weeks, I settled into my accommodation and discussed the most important steps of my data collection with Ken, the project partner of Los Guardianes. It consists of two parts:
1. measure the boundaries and important points of the Finca Curré and some neighboring properties with the GPS.
2. conduct interviews with the neighbors of the property and several organizations involved, such as the surrounding protected areas of Keköldi and Gandoca-Manzanillo, the environmental agency MINAET or the Jaguar Rescue Centre, which would like to release animals into the wild on the Finca Curré in the future.
We are currently in the process of contacting neighbors and organizations in person and by e-mail.
However, communication via the Internet proves to be difficult, as there is no Wi-Fi in the forest and it is a long way into town. Cell phone reception is also not always available. This is why we primarily use personal contact.
On 24.03. I walked around the Finca Curré with Thierry, who guards it, and the volunteer Rasmus. I recorded the route on the GPS and marked important key points on it. It was a great hike through this untouched rainforest, albeit very strenuous ;). I’ll send photos of our tour next time, if the internet cooperates!
