Tropical Ecology Field Trips to Monteverde, Costa Rica

Teachers or professors who organize a trip of 15 students or more are eligible to come to the BEN (El Bosque Eterno de los Ninos)/Children’s Eternal Rain Forest for free. Our two biological field stations at San Gerardo and Poco Sol are ideally situated in the largest private reserve in Costa Rica. You will stay in a 54,000 acre wilderness surrounded by rainforest filled with exotic tropical flora and fauna, waterfalls, lakes and one of the most active volcanoes in the hemisphere! Bring your binoculars, rubber boots, poncho and camera!

You may customize your field trip to suit the academic and/or adventure needs of your students. The length of your trip is up to you. We can make suggestions and offer excellent biologists, naturalists, para-taxonomists as guides. Night hikes, solos, journal keeping all enrich the experience. Endemic species and photo ops abound. Tree planting and trail maintenance service projects add to the experience. Students feel invested in the forest when they help. We want our visitors to learn about this forest with their heads, but also to feel for this forest with their hearts.

For a sample two week trip organized by MCLUS click here. Student field trips can be longer or shorter to meet your needs. We can be a piece in a longer semester trip. We are happy to work out details to fulfill your requirements.

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TESTIMONIAL from Prof. Barry Allen, Rollins College, Florida, who brings students every year. “San Gerardo (field station in the BEN) is a wonderful facility for studying conservation biology in practice. The setting is incomparable. In our six week program each summer, it is always one of the places which students give their highest evaluations.”

TESTIMONIAL by Dr. Mark Highland, University of Delaware: “This trip far exceeded our expectations for educational value and experience. We knew the trip would provide a glimpse of the flora, fauna and ecosystems of the tropics, but what we received will touch our lives forever. To be immersed in the cloud forest seemed part dream and part ecological Mecca.”