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

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...

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 -...

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...

We are proud to present the project report of the EPHI (Ecology of Plant / Hummingbird Interactions) project for Santa Lucía. Originally...

In April 2019 Morgan Hughes and Scott Brown (both University of Wolverhampton) visited the Santa Lucía reserve and had a brief look into...

Finally we had to chance to visit the camera traps after two months of quarantine at home. Almost all camera got attacked / moved by...

Today, let's have a look at the monitoring data for the different woodcreeper species that there are in Santa Lucía. Although only two of...

Not surprisingly the Gray-breasted Wood-Wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) is something like the star amongst our birds - at least when it...

So, while we currently do not have any visitors at Santa Lucía, most of us are sitting at home. That means that - for the researchers...

Check out this report by Ailsa Lamond, former student of the University of Sussex: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/65370/ She analysed...

And while we're sitting locked up in our homes, it's time for a more or less elaborate look at the data. Here's a quick summary of the...

This year we expect a student of Sussex University to support the bird monitoring at the Santa Lucía reserve. Although we had to postpone...

Thanks to the Corona-Virus-Quarantine we were finally able to get rid of the huge backlog in reviewing the camera trapping data....

We did the monitoring of flowering orchids in our orchid garden early this months. The good news is: there are still more than 20 species...

Walking in the big footsteps of Natacha, Julia and Nicolas (last year's volunteers) we have two students of the Hoogeschool Gent, Belgium...