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Holger Beck
Feb 213 min read
Week 2025/08 monitoring recap.
While we are currently hosting a group of 13 students of the S.I.T. program in our reserve we also did three days of monitoring in...
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Holger Beck
Feb 152 min read
Camera Trapping in 2024 - the Results.
We have continuously monitored the Santa LucÃa Cloud Forest Reserve with camera traps now since 2016. Initially the project was co-funded...
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Holger Beck
Jan 212 min read
January news from the Santa LucÃa Cloud Forest Reserve
January tends to be one of the busiest months in terms of tourism in Santa LucÃa. This year it's a little different as the student groups...
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Holger Beck
Aug 4, 20231 min read
EcoForensic's Para-Ecologist Training in Santa LucÃa
Currently we host a training program for Ecuadorian Para-Ecologists here at the Santa LucÃa Reserve. It is a ten-day workshop run by our...
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Holger Beck
Jul 4, 20231 min read
Central American Agouti
The Central American Agouti (Dasyprocta punctata) is a rodent that is commonly directly seen as well as photographed by camera traps in...
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Holger Beck
Jan 19, 20222 min read
Wildlife Monitoring 2021
All the monitoring activities of 2021 were finalized in December and we are currently in the process of analyzing the data. Since 2008...
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Holger Beck
Dec 22, 20212 min read
Visit of University of Sussex - a short summary
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...
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Holger Beck
Aug 9, 20211 min read
Ocellated Tapaculo observed in Santa LucÃa!
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...
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Holger Beck
Aug 1, 20212 min read
Training for local Parabiologist finally held.
With a few months of COVID- and datetime-related delay, the hectare plot training for local parabiologists was finally held yesterday....
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Holger Beck
Jun 18, 20211 min read
The Hectare Plot Adventure begins ...
Earlier this week we could finally start setting up three new hectare plots in Santa LucÃa. Two collaborators - Ana Marisca and Edison...
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Santa LucÃa
May 30, 20211 min read
Santa Lucia / University of Sussex Workshop on 9th of June
Santa LucÃa and the University of Sussex will be running a work - online - on 9th of June at 11am Ecuadorian Time. We've invited all our...
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Holger Beck
May 17, 20211 min read
Following the Andean Bear (Tremarctos ornatus)
A few weeks ago when Holger, Noé and Ana walked through the Santa LucÃa forest in order to pick the spots for the new hectare plots we...
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Holger Beck
Apr 28, 20211 min read
Observatory Project Started!
Although the progress is still somewhat slow we could finally take the first steps in our Observatory Project. Unfortunately due to...
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Santa LucÃa
Mar 30, 20212 min read
Progress on Observatory Project
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...
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Santa LucÃa
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Short report on Monitoring 2020
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...
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Santa LucÃa
Jan 15, 20211 min read
Bird Monitoring 2020
The year 2020 was not a great year in terms of tourism, but research and especially bird monitoring have been major successes. In fact -...
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Santa LucÃa
Jan 1, 20212 min read
Happy New Year (and monitoring)
First of all, a happy new year to you all. We hope it's going to be a terrific year for everybody with life a little easier than it was...
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Santa LucÃa
Dec 2, 20201 min read
Project Report Hummingbird - Plant Interactions.
We are proud to present the project report of the EPHI (Ecology of Plant / Hummingbird Interactions) project for Santa LucÃa. Originally...
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Santa LucÃa
Nov 1, 20201 min read
Bat diversity in Santa LucÃa.
In April 2019 Morgan Hughes and Scott Brown (both University of Wolverhampton) visited the Santa LucÃa reserve and had a brief look into...
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Santa LucÃa
May 16, 20201 min read
Andean Bears in Santa LucÃa
Finally we had to chance to visit the camera traps after two months of quarantine at home. Almost all camera got attacked / moved by...
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