Conservation - COSTA RICA Monthly Update for Conservation Programme

Costa Rica Conservation Update – June/July 2010 I’d like to start this update by making a quick apology for not letting you know what we did during June. It has honestly been the busiest time ever here (we have never had so many volunteers). So we have all been super busy!

Costa Rica Conservation Update – May 2010 The crazy weather is still with us here in Barra Honda but now we know that it’s here we have adapted our routine slightly so that we aren’t getting soaked every 5 minutes.

Costa Rica Conservation Update – April 2010 April has been a very strange month for us at Barra Honda, the weather suddenly turned on us and for the first time in almost 30 years the wet season came in the last 2 weeks of the month and it hasn’t left yet, nor does is look like it will!

Costa Rica Conservation Update – March 2010 As with every month so far this year, March has been another brilliant time for us at Barra Honda, we’ve had many volunteers with us for the last couple of months and we couldn’t be happier with them, hard workers, good company and always asking good questions about our time together in Barra Honda, what more could we ask for?

Costa Rica Conservation Update – February 2010 Although I am slightly biased to everything that happens in the park, I have to admit that February has probably been the most exciting month ever in the Barra Honda national park. We have had new sightings, new reports, restarted old projects, started new projects and really made huge progress with old projects!

Costa Rica Conservation Update – January 2010 After a slow December, January has been such a change for us here at Barra Honda, that we have been rushed off our feet! We always planned that January 2010 would be big time for us, refining many of our investigation projects and starting many more projects around the area.

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update November 2009 As the New Year approaches we are beginning preparations for an even better year than the one that is just passing. During November we focused a lot moving the butterfly project further forward getting ready for an even larger project next year.

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update October 2009 October has been another very good month here in the park, although the rains have been falling harder than anyone expected we have been continuing many of our projects and have begun some very interesting phases of established projects.

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update September 2009 September has been another hard month in Barra Honda, with the rains coming and going at random times we have been trying to avoid the heavy downpours but still get as much work done as possible.

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update August 2009 Ever since the rains started a couple of months ago the forest in and around Barra Honda have sprung to life, even though we have what is locally called the wet season's summer (a period of 3-4 weeks where it doesn't rain at all) there has still been enough rain to change the forest around us.

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update July 2009 July has been a very interesting month for us here in Costa Rica. Months of planning, meetings, modifications and phone calls all to organise the work, accommodation and trips for our busiest month of the year!

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update June 2009 Although June hasn’t been the busiest time for us in terms of volunteers, we have still been incredibly busy continuing the work that has already been started, finishing certain projects around the park and setting up our butterfly project.

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update May 2009 After such busy months since January we honestly expected May to be a time where we could all relax a little and take stock of the start of our first solid year here in the park, but even though we had times with only 1 volunteer we managed to keep pushing forward and managed to make some big break-throughs!

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update April 2009 March and April have been such busy times here at the park that I honestly can’t remember where the time has gone!

Conservation in Coasta Rica- Monthly Update March 2009 As this is my first article since arriving in Costa Rica in November 2008 I thought a brief explanation would be necessary, not just about myself but about the park that Projects Abroad is working in.