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<div class="field field-name-field-landing-slideshow field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div id="gdfcf-landing-cover"> <h3 style="bottom: 162px;"><span class="title">ACG biodiversity: Ecosystems, species</span><br> Click to enlarge and display photo captions</h3> <img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/splash.jpg"></div> <ul data-section="Where We Work" data-title="ACG biodiversity: Ecosystems, species" id="gdfcf-landing-slideshow" style="display:none;"> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Cloud-Forest-Arenales.6-16jun05.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Cloud-Forest-Arenales.6-16jun05-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>Clouds roll in, clouds roll out, and we wish the atmospheric carbon would leave the refrigerator door shut.</p> <p class="date">Sector Cacao<br> 16 June 2005</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/cloud-forest">Ecosystems: Cloud Forest</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/PICT1644-Puma-behind-lab-SR-241am-4Apr2014.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/PICT1644-Puma-behind-lab-SR-241am-4Apr2014-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>As annoyed by the flash as you are, a thirsty mountain lion wonders what’s next in this backyard of the Area Administrativa.</p> <p class="date">Sector Santa Rosa<br> 4 April 2014</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Murcielago-Islas-San-Jose-SE-Luciano-Capelli-22nov13.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Murcielago-Islas-San-Jose-SE-Luciano-Capelli-22nov13-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>43,000 ha of whales, octopi, red snapper, sea horses, clams and salt. <span class="photo-credit">Photo: Luciano Capelli</span></p> <p class="date">Sector Marino off Peninsula Santa Elena<br> 22 Nov 2013</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/marine">Ecosystems: Marine</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Brassavola-nodosa-CTSR-2aug13.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Brassavola-nodosa-CTSR-2aug13-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p><i>Brassavola</i> orchid calling out in the night with its gardenia fragrance to searching sphinx moths. One of few orchid species in ACG dry forest.</p> <p class="date">Sector Santa Rosa<br> 2 Aug 2013</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a><br> <a href="/dry-forest">Ecosystems: Dry Forest</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a class="vimeo-link" data-embed-src="//player.vimeo.com/video/265635213?byline=0&portrait=0&color=548434" href="https://vimeo.com/265635213"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/eulaema-video.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>Male <i>Eulaema</i> orchid bee gathers scents for his courtship dance from primary rainforest <i>Dalechampia</i> flowers. He pollinates this strange low plant in the process. <span class="photo-credit">Video: W Hallwachs</span></p> <p class="date">Sector Rincon Rainforest<br> 1 April 2010</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a><br> <a href="#"><i>Eulaema</i> mimics</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a class="vimeo-link" data-embed-src="//player.vimeo.com/video/265635128?byline=0&portrait=0&color=548434" href="https://vimeo.com/265635128"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/eacles-video.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>She calls in the night with her perfume and he comes in the night. <span class="photo-credit">Video: W Hallwachs</span></p> <p class="date">Sector Santa Rosa<br> May 2014</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a><br> <a href="#"><i>Eacles</i> studies</a><br> <a href="/parataxonomists">Parataxonomists</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/BoaXSwainson's.03-AASR-23feb14.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/BoaXSwainson's.03-AASR-23feb14-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>Journey’s end for a migrant Swainson’s thrush (<em>Catharus ustulatus</em>), and lunch for a boa.</p> <p class="date">Sector Santa Rosa<br> 23 February 2014</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/mangrove-Rhizophora-_3034-1mar14.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/mangrove-Rhizophora-_3034-1mar14-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>Rhizophora mangroves, gorgeous to look at, hell to walk through, and refuge to everything from baby fish to crabs to clams to nesting parrots and migrant birds.</p> <p class="date">Sector Santa Elena<br> 1 March 2014</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a><br> <a href="/marine">Ecosystems: Marine</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/C_rubra_nest_18jul00.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/C_rubra_nest_18jul00-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>Curassow (<em>Crax rubra</em>) mother sits her two dinosaurian eggs and hopes.</p> <p class="date">Sector Santa Rosa<br> 18 July 2000</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Rothschildia-erycina-x-Cotesia-10-SRNP-13027-DHJ476002.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Rothschildia-erycina-x-Cotesia-10-SRNP-13027-DHJ476002-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>Looking like a coral snake protects you from birds but does not save your soul from the wasp parasites. <em>Rothschildia erycina</em> caterpillar parasitized by <em>Cotesia</em> wasps, here in their new cocoons after puncturing out through the caterpillar.</p> <p class="date">Sector Santa Rosa<br> 25 August 2010</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Chrysoplectrum-08-SRNP-41144-DHJ442290.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Chrysoplectrum-08-SRNP-41144-DHJ442290-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>I live my life in the dark of the night or my rolled leaf, but uncover me and I scream Don’t Touch in flaming red-orange and black.</p> <p class="date">Sector Rincon Rainforest<br> June 2008</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a><br> <a href="http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/paginas-de-especies-por-familias/103-hesperiidae/220-chrysoplectrum-burns01-hesperiidae" target="_blank">Parataxonomist species page</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Cropia-98-SRNP-15517-DHJ47781.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Cropia-98-SRNP-15517-DHJ47781-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>Why dress yourself in a Victorian tapestry with spines? We’ll have to ask the birds.</p> <p class="date">Sector Cacao<br> October 1998</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/biodiversity-species">Biodiversity: Species</a><br> <a href="#">Barcoding</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Cafetal_SantaRosa_18may08-2.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Cafetal_SantaRosa_18may08-2-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>A cold front in the late dry season has triggered the glowing yellow cortez amarillo (<em>Tabebuia ochracea</em>) eight days later, among dry forest evergreen and dry forest deciduous tree crowns.</p> <p class="date">Sector Santa Rosa<br> 18 May 2008</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/dry-forest">Ecosystems: Dry Forest</a></p> </div> </div> </li> <li><a href="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Leiva-rainforest-carbon-measurements-20may08.jpg"><img src="/sites/default/files/landing-slideshows/where-we-work/Leiva-rainforest-carbon-measurements-20may08-thumb.jpg"></a> <div class="caption"> <p>Under 40 m of primary forest trees the deep shade leaves an open understory that you could ride a bicycle through if it was flat.</p> <p class="date">Sector Rincon Rainforest<br> 20 May 2008</p> <div class="links"> <h2>Read more</h2> <p><a href="/rain-forest">Ecosystems: Rain Forest</a></p> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-gdfcf-landing-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://www.gdfcf.org/sites/default/files/styles/gdfcf_image_landing_page_inset/public/landing_page_images/inset.jpg?itok=bxGdLeLX" width="160" height="142" alt="Isla San Jose" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>We work in a place of outstanding biodiversity and beauty in northwest Costa Rica called <a href="https://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr/index.php">Á</a><a href="http://www.acguanacaste.ac.cr">rea de Conservación Guanacaste</a> (ACG). Home to 2.6% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, ACG is the only protected area in the Neotropics that sweeps from Pacific Ocean waters up and over the volcanic mountain range of the continental divide and down into the lowlands of the Atlantic rain forest. The Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund (GDFCF) was formed to aid with the development, protection, and sustainability of ACG.</p> <p>ACG is an area of remarkable contrast: volcanoes; islands; rain forest; dry forest; coral reefs; plus, birds, insects — of all shapes, colors and sizes — and mammals — large and small cats, peccaries, tapirs, anteaters, sloths, whales, dolphins, sharks, crocodiles, iguanas, and courting rays — <a href="/biodiversity-major-ecosystems-acg">500,000 species of them</a>. It is part of major and varied migration routes, including: north-south (whales, birds); east-west (moths, butterflies, wasps, flies, dragonflies, birds); lowlands-cloud forests (butterflies, moths, wasps, flies, birds); and, sea to land (turtles).</p> <p>ACG is an 169,000-hectare (~ 417,000 acres) system of protected areas that includes two national parks, assorted wildlands, wildlife refuges, private reserves, and a large no-take marine sector, all being restored from remnant habitats. Its topography, size, and ecosystem variability are designed to protect its biodiversity from humanity while being used in a non-damaging way, and — to the extent possible — protect it from the ravages of climate change by making it as large and resilient as possible.</p> <p>ACG is a green jewel in a green country, part of the Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservación (SINAC) of the Costa Rican Environment Ministry (MINAE), but with a novel administrative structure. Its public-private collaboration with the GDFCF integrates government security with mission-directed flexibility. ACG supplies clean air and water, bioliteracy, and 150 high-quality rural biodiversity management and development jobs to its neighboring communities on an approximate $4 million government + $2 million supplement from GDFCF annual budget, its not-for-profit partner.</p> <p>ACG is an almost 40-year-old pilot project for restoration and conservation of tropical biodiversity into perpetuity, through innovation, collaboration, science, and home-grown understanding of the natural world. As such, ACG programs and projects with GDFCF are highly regarded across the global tropical conservation and science community.</p> </div></div></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </section> <section class="column column-second column-alpha clearfix"> <div class="panel-pane pane-menu-tree pane-main-menu second-level-menu" > <h2 class="pane-title"> Where We Work </h2> <div class="pane-content"> <div class="menu-block-wrapper menu-block-ctools-main-menu-1 menu-name-main-menu parent-mlid-main-menu-0 menu-level-2"> <ul class="menu"><li class="first expanded menu-mlid-740 menu-964"><a href="/biodiversity-major-ecosystems-acg" title="Four major ecosystems of ACG">Major Ecosystems of ACG</a> <span class="description">Four major ecosystems of ACG</span><ul class="menu"><li class="first leaf menu-mlid-1205 menu-964"><a href="/marine">Marine</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-1203 menu-964"><a href="/dry-forest">Dry Forest</a></li> <li class="leaf menu-mlid-1204 menu-964"><a 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