At the very beginning of each year, Cloudbridge Nature Reserve becomes a living classroom as we welcome students from the Gatton Academy, a collaboration that has become a tradition marking the start of our scientific calendar. This January, we had Read More …
Happy New Year! From all of us here at Cloudbridge, we would like to wish you and your loved ones a prosperous 2026, filled with good health, laughter and many blessings. Looking back on the year that has just come Read More …
As 2025 comes to a close, we would like to reflect on a remarkable year of research, learning, and collaboration at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve. Over the past twelve months, nearly 80 researchers, interns, and volunteers worked alongside our team, helping Read More …
In our area of Costa Rica, November is a time in which we receive large quantities of rain on certain days, but we also have some days in which we can feel the beginning of the coming dry season. The Read More …
At Cloudbridge Nature Reserve, our camera trap network is a cornerstone of ongoing mammal research and biodiversity monitoring. Many mammal species within the reserve are elusive, primarily nocturnal, or actively avoid human presence. As a result, traditional observation methods often Read More …
It´s the rainy season here at Cloudbridge, but that has not stopped us from continuing with our activities here at Cloudbridge Nature Reserve. Throughout the Costa Rican school year, we have been imparting the environmental education program CONUBI in two Read More …
From September 26 to 28, 2025, Cloudbridge Nature Reserve welcomed participants to the second edition of the intensive course “Mammals of Costa Rica: Natural History, Conservation, and Field Methods.” Led by biologist José Daniel Ramírez-Fernández—a leading expert on Neotropical small Read More …
September is Costa Rica´s patriotic month in which Costa Rica celebrates its independence from Spain in 1821. Though this proclamation was made on September 15th, it took over a month for this news to travel over land from Guatemala to Read More …
From Cloudbridge to Nature: The Science of Seasonal Asynchrony At Cloudbridge, we believe that meaningful science often begins with quiet observation: a flower opening in the mist, a bird calling from a young forest, a researcher pausing to wonder about Read More …
Chirripo National Park is celebrating it´s 50th anniversary, and this month has been full of engaging activities, culminating in the revival of the “Reto de las Aguas Eternas” (Eternal waters challenge), a 12 km trail run which goes through Cloudbridge Read More …