Last Sunday during the fair of the annual festivities in Nanegal we had a test run of our park school activity. The park school is an...

Earlier this month several members of the Santa Lucía community and neighbors got an introduction into the cultivation of the Vanilla...

All the monitoring activities of 2021 were finalized in December and we are currently in the process of analyzing the data. Since 2008...

From 4th to 20th of December we hosted two groups of students from the University of Sussex in our reserve. It was a blast. Everything...

It's time for good news from Santa Lucía again! Yesterday, we installed a new set of solar panels! The goals is to have some continuous...

Last week Ana Mariscal's team finished the establishing the last hectare plot in Santa Lucía. That means that we have three hectare plots...

It finally happened! After 18 months we received our first student group last week. Elevent students and three teachers of the School for...

Noé has completed the first round of bird monitoring for 2021 and we had to wait for quite some time to find a new species. But in late...

With a few months of COVID- and datetime-related delay, the hectare plot training for local parabiologists was finally held yesterday....

Three days ago a group of scientists and parabiologists led by Ana Mariscal (Cambugán Foundation) started working on the first of our new...

We hope to replace the manual measurement of rainfall by a weather station at the lodge at least within the next few months. Down in La...

Earlier this week we could finally start setting up three new hectare plots in Santa Lucía. Two collaborators - Ana Marisca and Edison...

Yesterday - 9th of June - the long-awaited workshop of Santa Lucía and the University of Sussex finally took place. Online of course. And...

Santa Lucía and the University of Sussex will be running a work - online - on 9th of June at 11am Ecuadorian Time. We've invited all our...

A few weeks ago when Holger, Noé and Ana walked through the Santa Lucía forest in order to pick the spots for the new hectare plots we...

Although the progress is still somewhat slow we could finally take the first steps in our Observatory Project. Unfortunately due to...

So, we wanted to kick off the observatory project in February with some action already, but as it is probably in most cases with such...

Here you can download the monthly rainfall data for the Santa Lucía Ecolodge as a .csv file and create your own analysis' with it. The...

We've created a short report on all the different monitoring activities in 2020. It was meant to be used internally only, but there's...

The year 2020 was not a great year in terms of tourism, but research and especially bird monitoring have been major successes. In fact -...