{"id":239407,"date":"2024-04-13T23:52:12","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T21:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/new-head-of-environmental-education-in-monte-alto\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T14:53:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T12:53:50","slug":"new-director-of-environmental-education-in-monte-alto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/new-director-of-environmental-education-in-monte-alto\/","title":{"rendered":"New head of environmental education in Monte Alto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module preset--module--divi-text--default\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>In 2019, Finca Alicia was planted with over 1,100 trees of 40 different species. Numerous schoolchildren and students from the region actively helped with the effort. With the start of the rainy season in early May 2020, we will be able to assess more accurately how well the young saplings have survived the hot dry season. A recent survey showed that the plantation is in very good condition. The project was successfully<strong> managed and supervised<\/strong> by our<strong> forestry engineer, Victor Esquivel, over a period of two years<\/strong>.     Victor changed careers at the beginning of 2020 and we would like to thank him very much for his professional reforestation work and his great commitment to environmental education. Working with him was a lot of fun and we wish him all the best for the future! <\/p>\n<p><strong>At the same time, we are delighted<\/strong> to <strong>have found a professional successor for environmental education<\/strong> in Alexis Obregon Carillo. Our project coordinator Stefan Rother and Alexis have already drawn up a project plan for the next two years at the beginning of 2020, which also includes numerous new ideas and projects. In addition to traditional environmental education at more than 10 regional schools and universities, we will be implementing new ideas with the pupils, such as creating local <strong>gardens with medicinal plants in schools<\/strong>.  Here, the knowledge of the older generations is to be passed on to the pupils and implemented directly with the plant nurseries. At the same time, we would like to use the immediate proximity between the protected reforested forest areas and the small parcel <strong>fruit and coffee plantations in the Hojancha valley basin<\/strong> to establish a model project combining forest protection, agriculture and beekeeping. <\/p>\n<p>Scientific aspects are also being given greater consideration: Together with the Fundacion Monte Alto and the Guanacaste Fund, we have been able to reforest more than 60% of the approx. 900-hectare basin with natural mixed forest within 25 years. From 2020, we will increasingly carry out the <strong>determination and identification of animal and plant species<\/strong> in the reforested region. This also includes the establishment of camera traps, which are primarily intended to provide data on nocturnal mammals. We wish our young project partner Alexis a good start and every success with this comprehensive program of environmental education, nature conservation and science.   <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3784\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3784\" class=\"wp-image-3784 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tropica-verde.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Alexis-und-Miguel-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" title=\"\"><p id=\"caption-attachment-3784\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexis explains the individual environmental education modules to Stefan (left), watched intently by the head of the Fundacion Monte Alto Miguel Mendez (right) and the very interested youngsters.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Photos: Stefan Rother - Faunity & Michael Ott<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,150,215],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-educational-work-cr","category-news-monte-alto-en","category-projects-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239407"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252118,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239407\/revisions\/252118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tropica-verde.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}