Make a Difference

1) Visit Campanario:  This is first and foremost.  You, your friends, fellow students, office colleagues, should get to know what a rain forest is all about.  Campanario can handle individual visitors or groups up to 40 persons for courses, corporate retreats, family reunions, etc.  Give it some thought.  You'll have a wonderful vacation and learn a great deal in the process.  You'll get muddy, sweaty, wet, tired, but will see things too precious to lose.   Click here for reservations. Come see for yourself!  Don't just believe this page and web site, come and verify all this for yourself.  We guarantee you'll be inspired!! 2) Donate your time as an intern:  Click here for Internship Program. 3) Donate materials and equipment:  There are many needs.  If you are coming for a visit, perhaps you could bring something with you.  Or perhaps you could ship something to an address in the USA where someone coming this way could pick up the item.   Please contact us for details about any item below. This is our Wish List:

• Binoculars
  
• Spotting scope.
• Night vision binoculars and scope
• Your favorite biology and ecology technical books for the Campanario library.
• Climbing harnesses, helmets, and gear to get into tree platforms (this equipment will need to be new for safety).
• Good power tools - because the salt air and humidity have ruined most of what we have.
• Butterfly nets and mist nets - for capturing and identifying insects and bats.
• Dissecting microscopes - for continual research.
• Small portable backpack gasoline powered generator - to use away from usual power sources.
• Digital movie camera - for filming wildlife.
• Motion sensitive cameras to monitor wildlife migrations in the forest.
• Laptop computers.
• Ambient thermometers.
• Calipers (manual)
  
• Laser sensor for temperature readings
• Salinity meter
• Data logger for recording data from sensors (Hobo)

• Bat ecolocation finder

• Surgeons magnifying glasses

• Polasky tool for trail maintenance

• Vials and all sorts of other collecting containers
  

• Magnifying glasses for trail use

• Forceps, large tweezers

• Infrared flashlights

• Snake hooks

• Ultrasonic sound detectors

• GPS with capabilities of use under the canopy

• Walkie talkies

• Sound recorder for forest sounds

• Submersible cameras for marine photos

4) Donate your funds:  You should be happy to know that it is through your donations that Campanario can continue its work and operate our many programs.  We maintain a painfully low administrative overhead, which means your donation goes to the current projects.

1. Expansion of the biologically protected area of the Osa Peninsula
2. Providing educational resources to the local area school children
3. Subsidizing environmental education trips for local school children
4. Subsidizing tropical research
5. Protecting and improving our watershed and water supply
6. Monitoring migrations of large mammals in buffer zones outside of Corcovado National Park
7. Developing the Osa Trails Project to include neighboring farmers in the protection of the forests
8. Filming wildlife behavior, such as manakin leks

Donations may be made by check or direct wire transfer to the Campanario bank account in Costa Rica.  Please let us know how you would like Campanario to use the money.  Please include your contact information and whether you would like the donation to remain anonymous.

For direct wire transfers, please e-mail us for the latest instructions.

For checks, please make the check payable (US dollars please) to simply:  Campanario

Mailing Address in Costa Rica:                           Mailing Address in the US (for documents only)
Proyecto Campanario                                           Proyecto Campanario
Apdo. 620-1007                                                    SJO 9286
San José, Costa Rica                                            PO Box 025331
                                                                               Miami, Florida   33102-5331

5) Purchase Items: Purchase one of our few products where all proceeds go to the maintenance of the protected area.  At the moment we have postcards, T-shirts, cloth tote bags, and note card sets with drawings from the rain forest.  Click here for ordering

Campanario thanks you for your concern and contribution!

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