LOCAL ACTION

A Labor of Love - The Beginning of the Cuenca Baru Catchment Data Collection

We are looking at the health of the Baru River system and all of its tributaries in the Southern Central Pacific Zone of Costa Rica

Diamante Valley

A Labor of Love - The Beginning of the Cuenca Baru Catchment Data Collection
Action dates:
Action dates: March 16 to 31, 2026
Project
Part of Cuenca Baru

IMPACTS

What the community made possible

7 participants

Outcomes

  • Knowledge / skills increase: we have 1st hand knowledge of the impact zones and the areas that are closer to pristine nature

Activities

  • 10 Field days / restoration days

Assets

  • 100 Funding received (USD)
  • Intellectual Capital: Cameron's 25 years of field and desktop experience shared with the observation team
  • Experiential Capital: Trainees gained knowledge through repeated observational protocols
  • Spiritual Capital: The connection with the energies of the different subcatchment zones at the point of confluence and the beauty at each of the sites