At
BOSQUE DE PAZ, we give provide jobs to the community
of Toro Amarillo to set an example that conservation
of this natural habitat can be economically beneficial
to rural communities, and as a residual effect the local
people have started by their own initiative to protect
the forest and its inhabitants.
We
have treaties with several Museums, Zoos, Labs, Colleges,
and Universities, for use of the forests of our Preserve
as living observation lab for tropical biology students
and teachers, to do their research on some of the thousands
of living organisms that have their home in these forests.
We
have been visited by several famous researchers that
have heard about our research grounds, such as Dr. Julio
Sánchez (Costa Rica's foremost authority in Ornithology),
Dr. Richard Whitten (entomologist who makes films for
National Geographic), Dr. Bob Fisher (Ecologist and
Ornithologist who studies the Costa Rican Hummingbirds
and their specific external parasites), Dr. David Ross
(Cornell University Ornithologist who tapes Costa Rican
bird sounds), Dr. F. Gary Stiles (author of the book
"Birds of Costa Rica") and the list goes on
and on.
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