

My stare-down with an ocelot
As an intern at Un poco del Chocó, every Monday it’s my task to walk through the rainforest to check and exchange various camera traps....
Ilka K.
Mar 6, 20192 min read
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A bird's view on UPDC
A couple of weeks ago my NatGeo colleague and friend Ross Weinberg visited us in the reserve. Ross is a photographer and filmmaker and...
Nicole
May 26, 20171 min read
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Huasipichai, the long-awaited inauguration of the chill-out-area
Finally, finally, finally we are done!! Our multi-functional chill-out area is ready! In October last year, we started digging the holes...
Nicole
May 10, 20171 min read
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Towards more sustainability
In the past months several volunteers have helped us to complete some smaller projects in the organic garden. So here a few updates!...
Nicole
Feb 4, 20162 min read
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Pambil wood for our trails
The maintenance of our trails is one of our never-ending tasks in the reserve. When we started building the steps on our trails a couple...
Nicole
Oct 21, 20152 min read
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Planting trees - Our reforestation project
In our past few weeks at the reserve we (Alex, Philipp, Stephanie, Alwina, Dominik and Sophia) worked on a reforestation project. The...
Sophia, Stephanie and Alwina
Sep 11, 20152 min read
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Un poco del Chocó promo video on YouTube
After a couple of weeks of editing the Un poco del Chocó-Video is now ready and online. Thanks again to Edwin Toone and Amanda de Luis...
unpocodelchoco
Dec 1, 20141 min read
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Shooting a promo video for Un poco del Chocó
Earlier this year Edwin Toone and Amanda de Luis, a spanish-american couple from Little Miss Lola Productions contacted me. They were...
unpocodelchoco
Aug 24, 20141 min read
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Let the sunshine in!!!
The station house is now solar-powered !! ;-) A couple of days ago we installed a solar system for the station house. Now students can...
unpocodelchoco
Apr 12, 20141 min read
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Exploring the Reserve's Waterfalls
We always wanted to have a circuit through the forest which allows us to walk back from the river a different way than we came. After...
unpocodelchoco
Mar 31, 20121 min read
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