Category: Blog
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Our new 2017 Herps Field Guide is out!
Yet another reason to be thrilled about our amazing biodiversity! Twan Leenders from the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History, just sent us the updated 2017 Guide to the Amphibians and Reptiles of Cocobolo Nature Reserve, featuring no less than 113 species with gorgeous pictures and tips to identify them! Get your digital copy…
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Herpetology Course Announced for June 2017
CREA announces a 1 week hands-on course in Herpetology to be held at Cocobolo Biological Field Station, where participants will learn and explore the multitude of amphibian and reptile species that call this biodiversity hotspot home. We are very happy to have both Alex Shepack and Abel Batista facilitate this course. They bring international expertise and…
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Virginia Tech Visit Cocobolo 2017
14 students and their faculty lead, Prof. John McGee, visited Cocobolo Nature Reserve to participate in a study abroad trip organized by CREA. This was the third year that Virginia Tech have partnered with CREA and Cocobolo Nature Reserve. Students learnt about tropical ecology, conservation, sustainability and ecological field techniques, while seeing some amazing plants…
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Conservation Photography Field Course 2017
JUNE 11th-17th 2017 Award winning nature photographer and documentary maker Clay Bolt together with Wildlife Biologist and Photographer Andrew Snyder will guide participants to take compelling nature photographs in a natural setting in the heart of a Panamanian rainforest. COURSE OBJECTIVES: – Learn how to effectively evaluate and respond to a photographic opportunity in the…
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Clay Bolt Interview On Cocobolo
Clay Bolt, the award winning photographer and co-founder of “Meet Your Neighbors” recently visited the Cocobolo Nature Reserve along with other photographers and Scientists. He was part of a major expedition to photograph and monitor some of the last remaining Harlequin Frogs which have drastically declined due to chytrid disease, as well as document through…
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Cocobolo in FrogLog
Cocobolo tropical frog research was in the news recently! Our work in the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama received global attention earlier this spring in FrogLog, the quarterly publication of the ASA. CREA is a partner organization of Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History (RTPI) and the Amphibian Survival Alliance (ASA), with the three combining forces to…
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Limosa Harlequin Toad (Atelopus limosus) in New Scientist
In the 60 years that the illustrious journal New Scientist has been around they’ve never run a photo-led feature. We are very proud and honored that they decided to break with that tradition with a story on Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History President Twan Leenders’ work with endangered frogs here in the Cocobolo Nature Reserve in Panama,…