Happy Mother's Day!
Sloth mom and baby
Happy Earth Day!
Latest from the Marine Laboratory
Royal Flycatcher at ACG
GDFCF Bird Biologist in Action
Check out our latest video - wildlife biologist Natalie Sanchez at work!
White Hawk near Estación Pitilla
Pablo Elizondo holds a rare White Hawk captured in a mist net near Estacion Pittilla.
News from the Field
Working in both Caribbean-side rainforests and Pacific-side tropical dry forest ecosystems, GDFCF researchers and partners from the Costa Rica Bird Observatory (CRBO) recently completed several days of fieldwork in ACG.
GDFCF Welcomes a New Board Member
Dr. Alex Smith, an associate professor in the Department of Integrative Biology at the University of Guelph, Canada, is the newest addition to the GDFCF Board of Directors, joining in January 2018.
2017 Year End News
A "malaise trap" in Sector Mundo Nuevo of ACG that is set back from the road in order to measure changes in insect biodiversity from new geothermal energy development.
Dan Janzen at Shedd Aquarium, 7 PM Sept 21 Chicago, Ill
Shedd Aquarium and the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund
Invite you to a special evening presentation by tropical biologist
Dr. Daniel Janzen
Thursday, Sept 21, 2017 at 7:00 PM, Shedd Aquarium
Dan Janzen, Ph.D, and his wife Winnie Hallwachs, Ph.D, have been partners in one of the most globally significant experiments in tropical biodiversity restoration and conservation in Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG) in northwest Costa Rica. Dr. Janzen will discuss his 45 years of work in Costa Rica, how a large and complex tropical national park can be “biodiversity developed” and why this matters to the rest of the world. (rsvp's appreciateed to Eric Palola at palola@gdfcf.org) Event parking available at the Shedd.
Dan Janzen at Universidad de Costa Rica
Full house at Janzen UCR talk
2016 Year End News
We are so very appreciative of those who have helped us in 2016 in our ongoing mission to support the biodiversity survival of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG)...
441 Species Pages…and Counting!
The thirty four terrestrial parataxonomists and two marine parataxonomists have been steadily building the library of biodiversity knowledge...
BioMar team at work in Sector Marino
In late September an interdisciplinary team came to ACG’s Sector Marino to collect and analyze the results of nine underwater biomonitoring devices...
Celebrating neotropical migratory bird habitat
GDFCF has begun a monitoring program of neotropical migrant species at several locations around ACG...
Year-End Update from ACG
We’ve had another busy year at GDFCF in our mission to support complex biodiversity survival in the wildlands of Area de Conservacion Guanacaste (ACG).
Jaguar Nancite
Rare footage of a jaguar making his evening rounds on the coastline of ACG...
Extremely dry dry season affecting food and predators
This is the only puma visit caught on our trail camera behind our house in the Sector Santa Rosa administration area this year...
ACG in the New Yorker
A visit to ACG answers some of Jonathan Franzen’s questions.
BioMar is launched at ACG
A cross-section of Costa Rica’s marine conservation and scientific community gathers in Cuajiniquil.
MIA: rainy season in Guanacaste
“El Nino” produces driest conditions in decades.
Puma restoration benefits ACG education
A rare puma discovery
In Memorium: Peter M. Wege
GDFCF and biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica lost a great friend and visionary.
Dan Janzen and INBio share 2014 Blue Planet Prize
We are thrilled to announce that Dan Janzen and INBio have been awarded the very prestigious Blue Planet international prize for 2014....
Dan Janzen talk: The Museum of Natural History: Source of Products from Wild Areas
25th Anniversary Lecture Series, INBio (Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad) of Costa Rica
Portraits from Santa Rosa trail cameras, March-June 2014
November 11, 2012: Dan Janzen talk
Biodiversity Development: The Path to Conservation of a Complex Tropical Wild Land
Oct 12, 2012: Joe Rossano exhibit
BOLD: The Art of DNA Barcoding
Oct 12, 2012 - Feb 18, 2013
Rainforest internet cafe
Parataxonomists construct their "internet cafe" in the rain forest near Estacion Quica
Art Inspired by Species from ACG
The San Diego Natural History Museum recently concluded a show in spring of 2013...
Eco-Tourism to be Explored in Remote ACG northeast sectors
While tourism is undoubtedly Costa Rica's number one source of GDP...
Cameras to Los Trogones bird club
A set of small cameras with impressive zooms is on its way to Los Trogones bird club...
A Rodent of Unusual Size, Tylomys watsoni (Cricetidae)
The night the invaders came, bearing whole wheat spaghetti.
