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  Some great bird watching this month: Bird Watching: Manuel, Pemela, Estelle, and Roy – guides from Manuel Antonio Park have been visiting Cloudbridge with plans to bring some of their birding clients up for a hike in the cloud Read More …

  Sunny mornings and rainy afternoons……tis the season. This is definitely the season for tree planting.  Besides some planting that took place on the reserve filling in along the ridge lines and replacement plantings, we also took part in a Read More …

          Volunteers: When people give their time, energy, and skills to volunteer at Cloudbridge they are helping the environment by contributing to the reserve’s many needs.  Usually the volunteers also benefit personally by gaining new interests and Read More …

    May is the beginning of  planting season with the return of the rains. Difficult growing areas on the reserve such as the ridge lines still need a few trees.  We  also do enhancement plantings where there are predominantly Read More …

The tree ferns are a taxonomic division of the fern class.  They are different from ferns in that they have a type of trunk that holds up the huge fronds, up to 12 meters high.  It is not a true trunk but Read More …

  Volunteers/Researchers: The group ARO from Quebec sent two groups this month to help out with transplanting seedlings and other misc. work in the tree nursery, as well as annual road maintenance. —————————————————————————————— Bob stayed until mid month and rewired Read More …

Visitors: The group “Wilderness Inquiry” brought another eager bunch of visitors to Costa Rica to explore the forests and beaches.  They came up to Cloudbridge for a day hike.  They hiked to the water falls, along the river trail and across Read More …

New Resident Welcome to Cloudbridge.  We have waited a long time to have our first siting of a sloth on the reserve!   Maybe he has been here awhile….who knows.  They are very difficult to spot but this one just happened Read More …

These photos of a jaguar were taken by a camera trap in the next valley over from Cloudbridge.  This is the closest siting to the reserve of these beautiful cats. Volunteers/Research Clarice Esch returned to Cloudbridge to continue her research on the Read More …

This month the Capuchin monkeys have wandered across the river into the trees close to the volunteer casa.  On one occasion a local family had walked up from San Gerardo to Cloudbridge for a hike and were passing by when we Read More …