Partners
This work would be impossible without the ongoing support of a great many partners on the ground in Costa Rica. Our collaborators provide us with housing, infrastructure, and resources. They carry out the day by day monitoring work to maintain our extensive camera trap network, which involves hiking to remote locations to check cameras and switch out the chips, as well as processing and transmitting mountains of photos. On top of everything else, they encourage us and work alongside us during our special summer projects. Gracias a todos!
Quetzal Education Research Center, our home base in Costa Rica
Our hosts, QERC managers Carson and McCall Calloway of SNU
The Savegre Hotel is a long-time sponsor of QERC and provided the Savegre Reserve as our first camera trap site
(L-R) President Solis honors Don Efrain Chacon, founder of the Savegre Valley
Don Efrain Chacon and his family have supported QERC and in particular our mammal research from the beginning
SINAC is the national system of conservation areas and has been a crucial support for this research by providing infrastructure and staff support
ACLAP (La Amistad Pacific Conservation Area) was the first and remains the most important area where we work, representing the bulk of the Talamanca Cordillera
Los Quetzales National Park is the first park where we placed cameras
(L-R) Administrator Oscar and park guard Elvin of PNLQ
Tapanti National Park is across the Pan American highway from the Savegre Valley
Chirripo National Park is home to the highest peak in Costa Rica and has some of the most remote landscape in the country
La Amistad International Park straddles Costa Rica and Panama and is the largest and wildest protected area in the region, and appears to have a good population of jaguars
La Cangreja National Park is home to our good friend Leonel Delgado
Carara National Park is a famous tourist destination near the Tarcoles Bridge
Las Lapas Biological Corridor connects La Cangreja and Carara national parks; we have cameras in all three areas
Cabo Blanco National Park on the Nicoya Peninsula is the northernmost site for our camera trap survey
We have a long time presence in the Alexander Skutch Biological Corridor (CoBAS) located in the foothills south of Chirripo National Park, and home to two private reserves...
Las Cusingos Neotropical Bird Sanctuary, run by Centro Cientifico Tropical
and Las Nubes Reserve, run by Toronto University
La Marta National Wildlife Refuge was the first in the country
El Copal Reserve is located near La Marta in the community of Pejibaye, just north of the northern border of Tapanti National Park
Proyecto Campanario is a private reserve near the border of Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula
Panthera Costa Rica has worked with us with Google the famous scat detection dog
Nai Conservation works to conserve tapirs in and near the Savegre Valley
Gustavo Gutierrez of the Wildlife Genetics Lab at the University of Costa Rica (UCR) is one of our greatest allies and runs the lab where we send our scat collections
Carlos Orozco of Hablemos de Perros has been a key player as trainer and handler of scat detection dogs Charlie and Viper
Point Loma Nazarene University pays my salary and has provided two decades of financial support through Research Associates, RASP grants, Alumni Awards, and Wesleyan awards
San Diego Zoo Global has generously funded us for jaguar research for nearly a decade, and I am a research associate for the Zoological Society of San Diego which runs the zoo and the Institute for Conservation Research
