Appeal – Help save the Costa Rican Bellbird

CTF is running an appeal to help raise money for a project in the International Childrens Rainforest, Monteverde, Costa Rica. Can you help save this endangered habitat?

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Gold Mining – Rainforest Destruction in Costa Rica

We recently received the following statement from The Monteverde Conservation League (the guys responsible for the Children’s Eternal Rainforest). We thought we ought to pass the message along. I don’t know what we can do to help on this one, but I’ll…

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How is Rainforest purchased?

We asked Dan Janzen, President of the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund, how they identify the people who currently own the rainforest that they purchase for conservation. See what he has to say. The land purchases (more than 300 in the…

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Rare day-flying moth spotted

Dan Janzen has sent us an image he has taken of a Male day-flying moth Xanthocastnia evalthe in the family Castniidae, about 2 inch wingspan. While exploring the edge of the old-growth rain forest in central Sector A on 20 May 2008, I spotted this…

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Tropical Forest expedition in Costa Rica

This video is an info-mercial for Global Vision International, they run expeditions all over the world, some of which hit the rainforests that we raise money for. Check out their site for scientific trips into the rainforest. You need to a…

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Monteverde Cloud Forest

42,000 acres of beautiful cloud forest in Costa Rica. It is managed by the Monteverde Conservation League with money raised by children and their supporters all over the world, and is home to a huge range of plants, animals, insects…

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