Professor Troy Abel from Huxley College of the Environment and his students share their insights on ecological citizenship, political biogeography, and immersions in one of the most biologically intense places on the planet. Costa Rica is translated as rich coast, a name originating from Spanish conquistadors who mistakenly thought the land was filled with gold. Many now recognize that Costa Rica’s riches are more green than gold with more than 4 percent of the world’s estimated biodiversity. Costa Rica has universal health care, a longer life expectancy than the U.S., and no military. Only by expanding our attention to all of these facets can one begin to see “Ecotopia’s Prism,” or Costa Rica’s intersections of ecology, economy, and culture fostering and inhibiting sustainability.

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Hey from Botany Megan!!
Today we did a macaw count and woke up at 4:30 am. We saw 105 individuals and 12 baby Macaws.  After that we ate breakfast. We then painted half of a bridge.  The paint was super smelly.  Then we ate lunch. Nice tuna fish sandwhiches.  After that the botany team went out to their plot.  We finished measuring the diameter Base height of all the trees in the plot. We have a total of 17 trees with the base height of more than 10 cm.  We have been having difficulting in identifying the species, but we´ll figure it out. Yesterday the botany team was out all day working in our transect.  We also got a lecture about the Scarlet Macaws and saw pictures of snakes.  There is a tree next to our station that has a bunch of Howler monkeys that wake us up in the mourning!
Later from Megan!

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