You can also stay up to date on what is happening in the Bird Route, as well as conservation news around the globe by reading the official blog of Rainforest Biodiversity Group, The Macaw.
9th Annual Bi-National Macaw Festival
May 27-29, 2011
On May 27 to 29, the 9th Annual Bi-National Macaw Festival was celebrated in the community of Santa Elena de Pital, San Carlos, Costa Rica. The purpose of the festival is to join Nicaraguans and Costa Ricans together in a celebration of a shared natural resource: the endangered Great Green Macaw. Click here to continue reading.
Results from the 2010 Maquenque Christmas Bird Count
February 3, 2011
On January 8th, 2011, the Rainforest Biodiversity Group coordinated the 3rd annual Maquenque Christmas Bird Count. This year a total of 14 people counted at 6 sites within the Maquenque Bird Count Circle. Read full article here...
Flooding Damages Infrastructure at Bird Route Site Finca Pangola
December, 2010
Heavy rains fell across most of Costa Rica in early December causing many people to have to be evacuated from their homes and deal with extensive water damage, including at the Bird Route site of Finca Pangola. Click here to continue reading.
Costa Rican Bird Route Named Eco-Initiative of the Month
October, 2010
Rainforest Alliance's Eco-Index program recognizes the Costa Rican Bird Route as being innovative and on the cutting edge of creativity. Click here to continue reading.
The Present and Future of the Costa Rican Bird Route
August, 2010
The Costa Rican Bird Route is a project being implemented with funding from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Program for South-South Cooperation. With these grants finishing up by the end of the summer, Rainforest Biodiversity Group (RBG) has
begun to implement a strategy for the future management of the Costa Rican Bird Route (CRBR), which has recently expanded to include 18 sites.
Read full article here...
Costa Rican Bird Route on Birding Adventures TV
Birding Adventures TV (BATV) is the first birding TV program that focuses on destination and adventure bird-watching. Birding Adventure TV host James Currie goes in search of the highly endangered Great Green Macaw at Selva Verde Lodge, one of the Costa Rican Bird Route sites.
Click here to watch the video!
The New York Times Rated the Costa Rican Bird Route as being within the top 31 places to go in 2010!
Click here to read the online article.
Results from the 2009 Great Green Macaw Bi-National Count
April 7, 2010
Biologists from both Costa Rica and Nicaragua collaborated on a 2009 bi-national census of the Great Green Macaw population in the zone of the bi-national biological corridor El Castillo/San Juan-La Selva, ranging from southern Nicaragua on into northern Costa Rica. Read full article here...
Results from the 2009 Maquenque Christmas Bird Count
January 9, 2010
On January 9th, 2010, the Rainforest Biodiversity Group coordinated the 2nd annual Maquenque Christmas Bird Count. This year a total of 16 people counted at 8 sites within the Maquenque Bird Count Circle. Read full article here...
New Site Added to the Bird Route
October 7, 2009
The site of Quebrada Gonzalez is located next to the Braulio Carillo National Park, where an astounding 550 species of birds have been reported. Read Full Article Here...
Rainforest Biodiversity Group Comes to Aid of Earthquake Victims (February 28, 2009)
Albergue el Socorro, one of the new reserves that Rainforest Biodiversity Group helped to create as part of the Costa Rican Bird Route was one of the many victims of the 6.2 magnitude earthquake that struck Costa Rica on January 8th, 2009. The quake, whose epicenter was near the mountain town of Cinchona, famous for its hummingbird feeders, left at least 23 dead, destroyed multiple towns, collapsed a valley, and left the Sarapiqui River a disaster. Read Full Article Here...
Earthquake in Costa Rica Causes Widespread Damage to areas that include the Costa Rican Bird Route
Donate money to help the restoration efforts within the Costa Rican Bird Route. The earthquake hit the mountainous region northwest of San Jose, displacing more than 2,000 people, the number of deaths being estimated at 23. Most fatalities occurred during landslides. The displaced individuals have been sleeping on thin foam mattresses in temporary shelters in churches, schools and tent camps set up in soccer fields. Read Full Article Here...
Birds in Paradise: Species Rare and Common Flock Together on New Costa Rican Trail
Rainforest Biodiversity Group recently ran its second tour to the Costa Rican Bird Route. 11 participants traveled to 6 of the thirteen Bird Route sites from November 2nd to the 9th on a trip that focused not only birds, but also the natural history of Costa Rica and personal contact with the local culture. Read Full Article Here...
Costa Rican President Arias Does an About Face on His Country’s Peace with Nature Campaign:
Gold-Mining Project in Northern Costa Rica Threatens Great Green Macaw Habitat
Numerous trees have already been felled in preparation for the new gold mining project, the concession for which was granted to the Industrias Infinito Company, a subsidiary of the Canada-based Infinito Gold. Both the President of Costa Rica, Oscar Arias, and the Minister of Environment and Energy, Roberto Dobles, have endorsed this project, granting a permit for 191 hectares of forest to be cut in Las Crucitas, in the northern province of Alajuela. Of the trees that have been cut, many of them were the Almendro tree (Dipteryx panamensis), a tree that provides vital habitat to the endangered Great Green Macaw. Read Full Article Here.
