Monthly Archives: July 2013

In conjunction with the Comisión Nacional de Prevención de Riesgos y Atención de Emergencias the ACG has developed an emergency response plan for an eruption at Rincón de la Vieja. You can download the document here (pdf).

The Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation recently concluded its 50th anniversary meeting in San José. One product of the meeting was the The San José Declaration, in which the assembled biologists urged MINAE and the Congress of Costa Rica … Continue reading →

The databases page now contains links to BINABITROP, the National Bibliography on Tropical Biology developed by OTS. We have also linked to the new weather station data available on the ACG webpage. In order to avoid confusion and duplication of … Continue reading →

Speaking of books, the Tropi-Dry book “Tropical Dry Forests in the Americas: Ecology, Conservation, and Management” is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The volume was edited by Arturo Sanchez-Azofeifa, (iACG’s own) Jennifer S. Powers, Geraldo Wilson Fernandes, and Mauricio … Continue reading →

The Spanish version of Costa Rican Natural History, the book that fueled a thousand field courses and inspired generations of larval biologists, is now available online in its entirety here.