Following on from yesterday’s World Teachers Day blog, Maria Ghiso – education coordinator for the Rainforest Alliance – writes about a recent visit to Colombia’s Cachalú Biological Reserve. For a number of years, the Rainforest Alliance has been working to protect Cachalú’s gorgeous and diverse oak forest through a programme that contributes funding to small conservation groups in tropical countries…
Our two-hour hike in the rain and mud was well worth it to reach the beautiful Cachalú Biological Reserve. This unique oak forest has been part of our Adopt-A-Rainforest programme for many years. Julianne Schrader, manager of the Rainforest Alliance’s education programme, Al Stenstrup, director of education programmes at Project Learning Tree, and I were spending the week with our Sustainable Agriculture Network partners at Fundación Natura. Andrés Avella from their research team was guiding us on our journey to Cachalú. Read the rest of this entry ?
