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Monteverde, Costa Rica: 60 Years Later...

On April 19^th, 1951 a small group of Quakers from Fairhope, Alabama (USA) arrived in a Costa Rican cloud forest – a place they would call “Monteverde,” or the “Green Mountain.” For decades the Quakers lived a simple life farming and producing cheese. During this time only a handful of scientists…

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Added by Austin Haeberle on April 11, 2011 at 14:00 — No Comments

Borneo’s Husband-and-Wife Mountain Gods Look Down on Illegal Logging

The news that Norway has sold all of its shares in a Malaysian timber company it accuses of illegal logging has brought back memories of one of the best experiences of my life, and of a pair of sad brown eyes I wish I had not seen. Read the rest of my blog post at Under the Banyan.

Added by Mike Shanahan on August 26, 2010 at 10:50 — No Comments