Earlier I introduced the wish at Osa Conservation’s sea turtle program for some solution to unify data entry by volunteers during and/or after their beach patrols. In part 6, I will look at Sea Turtle DB, which was launched in May 2020. … More STRDs part 6 : Sea Turtle DB
Earlier I introduced the wish at Osa Conservation‘s sea turtle program for some solution to unify data entry by volunteers during and/or after their beach patrols. In part 5, I will look at TURT which is a crowdsourcing system. Probably launched in 2015, there is an app for iPhone and Android that uses crowdsourcing to … More STRDs part 5 : Turtles Uniting Researchers and Tourists (TURT)
Click here to see our new photo album, this time from Zancudo and Pavones Pincha aquí para ver el album de fotos del viaje a Zancudo y Pavones Klik hier om het album om Pavones en Zancudo te zien
For whom the Neotropical Companion (hereafter simply the Companion) is a bit on the heavy side, there is another, more easily accessible book called Monkeys are made of chocolate. It is written by Jack Ewing who bought a cattle and rice farm at the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica, somewhat north of Uvita. After a … More Monkeys are made of chocolate
At the offset of this world pandemic, I kept on thinking how the Corona would impact on the most marginalized members of society. As the World Health Organization insisted that we should wash our hands well and often, wear a mask and stay at home whenever possible, I kept on discussing with Frank what would … More Pandemics and poverty
The past few weeks we have seen how the new house of our house care taker has been built. I found it super interesting and Cristina and I regularly visited the site to see how it progressed. … More Constructing a house in Costa Rica
Having a house, or at least a roof over your head is considered to be one of the fundamental human rights. The right to a standard of living (Article 25). But it does not come as a surprise to anyone that many developing countries do not guarantee that fundamental human right to their citizens. Costa … More The right of housing in Costa Rica
Er zitten klimaatveranderingen aan te komen. Gisteren realiseerden we ons dat we nog maar drie weken hebben voor onze vrijwilligerstijd bij Osa Conservation er echt op zit. In totaal hebben we hier dan vier maanden doorgebracht. Maar dat is niet de enige klimaatverandering … More Week 21. Klimaatverandering
The English Google translate version of the Dutch post Leer este post en español de Google (original en Holandés)
One of the wonderful bits about my current volunteer work is that I am doing hands-on research (again). And this time, not with the idea of developing or testing a theory as it is often the case in academia, but with the humble and simple goal of improving people’s lives while ensuring the long-term conservation … More New insights into job downgrading…hands-on research again!
THE FLIP FLOP LIFE 