Today I woke up before the alarm totally rested. The sun was shining in the room and the jungle was awake. I could hear the collared forest falcon with his early pooouu pooouu. In the distance the howlers and the scarlet macaws. In between, the “pipopipos” (the wood rails). Just like every morning. But today, … More Taking pleasure in the small things in life
Have you ever felt that there is never time to learn new things that could make your work better…but that are not extremely urgent? That it is faster to do things “the old way” since learning the “new way” will take too much time? Do you tell yourself “I will do it in summer when … More New insights into job downgrading…the blessing of having time to learn new things
Forget me if I get too serious. But one of the outcomes of the volunteer work in conservation is that I started to think about how economics can contribute to conservation. Hence, this series of (more serious) blogs. I started discussing, in general, the links between economics and conservation. And in this blog and future … More Ecological economics and conservation
Have you ever wondered how someone with an economic or social science background can contribute to conservation? I had asked myself that question many times while we were preparing for the sabbatical and our volunteer work in Costa Rica. I searched the internet looking for examples of volunteer work in conservation and it seemed to … More Economics and conservation
Deze week zat de M in de luch : Muggen, schiMMel, Massale Mierensterfte, Manakins, nest Mysterie, Mango en Magnifieke lokatie. … More Week 18. De week van de 7 Ms
The English Google translate version of the Dutch post Pincha aquí para leer este post en español de Google (original en Holandés)
It is now a little over two months since Costa Rica published its first report on the Corona crises. At that point in time (11th of March) there were 22 reported cases of infected people. Today, there are 863 of which, only 288 are active cases. This country of 5 million inhabitants has suffered only … More What a tiny tropical country can teach the world about managing the Coronavirus crises
So, finally, the Government of Costa Rica decided to open some National Parks and some touristic activities starting the 16th of May. And guess what? We were lucky as the PN Corcovado is one of them. So, it took us exactly three nanoseconds to book our first birdwatching tour around the entrance of Dos Brazos … More New Photo album – Birdwatching guided tour in Dos Brazos del Rio Tigre
We have just published a new photo album with some new wildlife spotted in our garden this last week. You can access the album by clicking here.
Over the last couple of weeks, those of you following this blog might have been surprised by the multiplication of blog posts…in different languages. So, here is why. Making the blog accessible to all From the start, Frank and I decided that we would write the blog in English as the main language. But we … More The challenge of a multilingual blog
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