“Many people are divorced from nature, but we can always find our way back.” -Dr. Jane Goodall In the 90’s there was this amazing kid’s show called “The Wild Thornberry’s,” where Eliza and her pet chimpanzee traveled the world to talk to animals. Eliza’s ability to connect with exotic animals of all types sparked such a feverish jealousy within my
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Dates: August 2-17, 2017 Program fee: $2500 Application deadline: June 1, 2017 Location: Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Sponsoring Organization: DANTA: Association for Conservation of the Tropics in collaboration with Osa Conservation and Planet Conservation Course Description The proximate and ultimate causes of decline in rain forest habitats and biodiversity will be examined through a combination of direct observations in the field, lectures, and
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DANTA is delighted to announce a new course offering for summer 2017! Birds of Costa Rica will be held from July 15-July 30, 2017 at Osa Conservation‘s Piro Research Station in Costa Rica’s spectacular Osa peninsula. As the one of the largest tracts of rain forest north of the Amazon (roughly 400,000 acres in the Osa Conservation Area), it is renowned for high
Read moreDANTA and Osa Conservation are delighted to announce that Dr. Karen Strier will guest lecture in our summer 2017 Primate Behavior and Conservation course to be held in the spectacular Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica. Course dates are June 15 – July 10, 2017. For more information, please visit www.danta.info and/or email us at conservation@danta.info. Karen B. Strier is Vilas Research Professor
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My name is Seth and I am an Anthropology major at the University of California at Santa Cruz. As an aspiring Anthropologist, I have a keen interest in human evolution and our ancestors. More specifically, I’ve had an interest in studying primates for several years now. Unfortunately, it can be difficult to find outlets to pursue primatology as an undergraduate
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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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Wildlife Conservation and Sustainability Dates: August 2-17, 2017 Program fee: $2500 Application deadline: June 1, 2017 Location: Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica Sponsoring Organization: DANTA: Association for Conservation of the Tropics in collaboration with Osa Conservation and Planet Conservation Course Description The proximate and ultimate causes of declines of rain forest habitats and biodiversity will be examined through a combination of direct observations
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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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