Conservation Archives - Duff's Suitcase /conservation/ Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:29:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 Mashpi: a cocoon in an Ecuadorian cloud forest /mashpi-a-cocoon-in-an-ecuadorian-cloud-forest/ /mashpi-a-cocoon-in-an-ecuadorian-cloud-forest/#comments Fri, 06 Feb 2015 20:34:52 +0000 /?p=3875 I have a special place in my heart for cloud forests. There’s something undeniably magical about being in a world of trees, where every view is of hills of green wrapped in thick bands of mist, and every piece of moss is covered in jewel-like droplets of water. After a week in the natural Disneyworld […]

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]]> /mashpi-a-cocoon-in-an-ecuadorian-cloud-forest/feed/ 3 Saving Costa Rica’s sea turtles /saving-costa-ricas-sea-turtles/ /saving-costa-ricas-sea-turtles/#comments Fri, 25 Apr 2014 11:22:18 +0000 /?p=2980 It was midnight on a hot, sticky Costa Rican beach and I was so exhausted from jet lag that I had started hallucinating dark shapes in the ocean. We’d been walking on the starlit beach for a few hours following our enthusiastic guide, Kloyd Taylor, whose response to almost anything was a cheery “Pura vida!”. […]

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]]> /saving-costa-ricas-sea-turtles/feed/ 3 A Costa Rican adventure /storytellers-costa-rica/ /storytellers-costa-rica/#comments Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:50:15 +0000 /?p=2884 I’m pretty excited about my next assignment: a 10-day trip to Costa Rica with Contiki Cares! I’m joining 11 other people from around the world – the three winners of the recent #contikistorytellers competition, as well as photographers, filmmakers, bloggers and Celine Cousteau, a celebrated documentary filmmaker. The itinerary, based on a Contiki’s Costa Rica unplugged trip sounds epic – […]

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