Osa Conservation

A non-profit dedicated to protecting the Osa's globally significant biodiversity in Costa Rica.
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¡Únase a nuestro equipo! Estamos contratando a un gerente de proyectos para que nos ayude con el desarrollo de nuestro Campus de Conservación.
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We are hiring!
Osa Conservation is seeking a full-time biologist to join our new Rewilding Program.
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Meet the jaguarundi seen on the @osaconservation campus. It’s 1 of the 6 cat species that live in Costa Rica 🇨🇷. While people rarely see them in person, our network of camera traps used for wildlife monitoring have helped us get a special glimpse into their secretive lives.

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These photos are just 2 years apart. We planted these mangroves as seedlings in 2019. The 5 year old trees now tower almost 5 meters tall. Even better, seen in the third photo, they have started to produce their own seeds and the seedlings are growing.

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Is it a ghost? Is it a ghoul? A spirit of the forest? No, it’s a Baird’s Tapir, or danta! They’re the largest land mammal in the forests here and a keystone species for the ecosystem. For how big they are, they are quite nimble and move quickly and quietly in the forest.

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Our Lead Field Biologist, Paulina Rodriguez was part of a workshop organized by our partner @EarthRangerTech with officials from SINAC and other groups. Building these important collaborations around innovative technology allows us to protect more wild places in Costa Rica.

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We are thrilled to be part of Project Centinela. We are excited at the possibilities this project and data will bring to understand how to better bring back rainforests!
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How do we protect biodiversity? Right now, people from around the world are at COP16, determining how to answer that question. We are based in a biodiversity hotspot. The scale of biodiversity here can be seen on our network of camera traps across the landscape in which we work.

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On Global Big Day, we identified over 200 species birds around the Osa Peninsula! Over 70 people came to help search for birds in different spots in the area, from guides, scientists, naturalists and others from the community.

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A new study out by our team understanding what happens after an Ocelot is carefully rehabilitated and then released.

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Six months of GPS tracking of a rehabilitated #ocelot in Costa Rica reveal how it adapted to a mixed forest-agriculture landscape. 🇨🇷

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#neotropics

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We just published a new paper! It's all about identifying and prioritizing climate corridors throughout Central America. Link is in our bio!

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This Agouti has a problem: there’s a very venomous fer-de-lance viper outside its den! At @osaconservation we have an entire network of camera traps capturing the intense hidden world of wildlife on our conservation campus. Follow for more!

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Join our team in the field as they monitor bird communities at the farms we have restored.

Únase a nuestro equipo en el campo mientras monitorean las comunidades de aves en las fincas que hemos restaurado. 
#birding #birdingforconservation #conservation #restoration #costarica

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Have you ever seen this before? ¿Has visto esto antes? Captured on our Conservation Campus camera trap network!
#costaricawildlife #wildlifeconservation #cute #opossum #costarica #conservation #cameratrap

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Our Mangrove Program plans on planting 256,000 trees over the next 2 years. Here is a brief overview of how the Mangrove team is taking on this challenge. Thanks for supporting our work!
@salesforce
@onetreeplanted
The Band Foundation 
The Overbrook Foundation

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Prepare to be sniffed.  Camera trap footage from one of our trails shows this herd of Collared-Peccaries (Pecari tajacu). At the end you see mutual rubbing of scent glands which is a way of reinforcing group bonds.

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We've equipped 19 Golden-Winged Warblers with nano-tags using the Motus system, allowing us to track their incredible journey. Huge thanks to our collaborators, Ernesto Carman, Paz A. Irola, and David Segura! 🙌 All handling and capture were conducted under ACLAP permits.

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2024 inicia un nuevo y emocionante capítulo para nuestro Club Montaña al Mar: ¡nuestro programa de Educación Ambiental Bilingüe! Únanse a nosotros mientras nos embarcamos en un viaje bilingüe a través de los impresionantes ecosistemas de la Península de Osa.

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In March, the Costa Rican Tourism Institute recognized organizations making strides toward more sustainable sites and beaches across the globe. We're thrilled to receive this accolade again, spotlighting our collective efforts at Piro Beach and our Biological Station.

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This time, the Tropical Forest team embarked on an expedition in search of the endemic subspecies Magnolia sororum (subsp. lutea). Venturing into the field is crucial for acquiring meaningful information, enabling us to undertake sustainable conservation efforts.