Last week when the board of Friends of the Rainforest were visiting Costa Rica they spent the night in the Children’s Eternal Rainforest at Poco Sol. Jim Wolfe, biologist, film maker and ex-board member who has a cabin nearby, put his camera out overnight near the trail from the lake down to the waterfall at [...]

by Rowan Eisner in Monteverde When you’re busy maintaining trails or patrolling for poachers in the CER every day you don’t necessarily think to tell anyone when you see an animal. But for those of us who aren’t in the forest every day it is really special and we would like to know! So Wendy [...]

  Gaudy Leaf Frog (Agalychnis callidryas)             A flower in the frangipani family The casque-headed lizard is capable of changing colors depending on its substrate. Photos by guest blogger Richard Joyce  

The area known as “Las Chutas” is on a ridge in the CER, northeast of the town of Monteverde, south of Arenal Volcano, west of the Peñas Blancas Valley, and east of San Gerardo biological station.  Forty years ago, the portion of the Caribbean slope of the Tilaran mountain range now part of the CER [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, Recently I  returned from Costa Rica where I met with board and staff members of the Monteverde Conservation League (MCL).   There, all efforts are focused on protecting and expanding the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, as well as sharing it with others.   It’s a dedicated team! While in Monteverde I was delighted to [...]

Guest post by Richard V. Joyce Laguna Escondida (or Hidden Lagoon) lies several kilometers north of Eladio’s Refuge in the Peñas Blancas Valley. Rugged terrain and multiple river crossings mean that it can take over three hours to hike there from Eladio’s cabin. Trail-crew members, researchers and biology students are among the few people to [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, I was going to postpone writing this blog until later, as a grand finale to the series of blogs introducing you to the various places within the CER. I changed my strategy, though, because there was a group of nature lovers who organized a hike through the CER that I just had [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, The Three Wattled Bellbird is one of the many species throughout the world that is in serious danger of extinction. The bird has some amazing qualities, and like all other species struggling to survive in a shrinking natural world, it needs our help. Debra Hamilton and her team at the Costa Rican [...]

Dear Rainforest Friends, The CER is absolutely full of wonderful wildlife, and is a prime site for birders. Birding groups as well as loan travelers make it a point to visit both the San Gerardo and Pocosol Field Stations during the high birding season, and a recent visitor was able to take this wonderful photograph [...]

  Dear Rainforest Friends, One of the comments that I have heard from many visitors to Costa Rica is concerning the amount of development that has occurred there in the last 5 to 10 years. Before the strong tourism boom, the beaches were not lined by 25 story resort hotels, there were very few paved [...]