My DANTA Experience – Nicole Furgala University of Guelph, Zoology & Psychology For as long as I can remember, I have wanted to study animals. As a kid growing up, I would spend my summers catching frogs, then pretending to teach an invisible class about their structure and biology. This curiosity to understand the natural world is what led me
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Hello. My name is Evan Sloan, a DANTA: Association for Conservation of the Tropics alumni currently working on orangutan research in West Kalimantan, Borneo. The above first photo is from my very first walk into the jungle. The buffer zone between the national park and the village (fondly known to us as hell) had been effectively razed to the ground.
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I’ve known from the very beginning that I wanted to work with animals, and that regardless of where I ended up in life there would always be an animal sitting right beside me. Once in college, I narrowed down my carrier focus to working with primates. There are those pivotal decisions in life that curve pathways and redirect or change
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DANTA welcomes Eduardo Valverde to our teaching staff. He is a Costa Rican national and a graduate of the University of Costa Rica’s School of Architecture. In 2011, he created Batsu Architecture, a design studio with the main vision of promoting architecture deeply rooted in and respectful of nature, and based on the fact that unsustainable construction represents a major threat
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Primate Behavior and Conservation Dates: June 15-July 10, 2016 Program Fee: $3100 Guest Speaker: Dr. Christina Campbell Application deadline: June 1, 2016 For more information about the field course, please visit our website and/or email us at conservation@danta.info. Course Description This course is designed to provide students with field experience in primate behavior, ecology, and conservation. The course will be
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When I received my acceptance to DANTA’s Primate Behaviour and Conservation field course in Costa Rica last summer, I immediately surfed the web extensively on this country, (a nation slightly smaller than Nova Scotia, or for my American readers, West Virginia). Like any eager traveller, I wanted to know everything about this seemingly utopic, biologist’s mecca. Flanked on either side
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Each year DANTA offers a number of training courses in various aspects of tropical biology. Typically, the courses are one month long but shorter courses are also offered through our organization. The courses are intended for undergraduates or early graduate level students who have a keen interest in tropical biology and conservation, but have little or no experience of working
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I have been living and breathing on this earth for 21 years; some days this feels like an eternity, others it feels like a fleeting moment. However, when I look back at these 21 years, there are certain experiences that set themselves apart. My experiences at Piro Biological Station, Osa Conservation, fall into this category. The wonderful Osa Conservation has
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In July, I swapped my current role as “student” for the role of “educator,” something I hadn’t done since I left my job at an aquarium before starting veterinary school. I’ve always loved teaching because I’ve always loved learning, and the only thing more enjoyable than discovery itself is to be a part of someone else’s learning experience, to witness
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Methods in Primate Behavior and Conservation Dates: Summer Session: July 13 – July 28, 2018 Application deadline: Summer Session: June 15, 2018 Program fee: $2600 Location: Osa Conservation, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Contact: Visit our website and/or email us at conservation@danta.info for more information Course Description This course is designed to provide students with field experience in primate behavior, ecology,
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