We studied the home range size of Alouatta palliata during the wet season and how it was affected by human encroachment, such as crop fields, on the Isle de Ometepe in Nicaragua. A specific group of 1...

Ometepe Biological Field Station, San Ramone, NicaraguaAbstractOur research question focused on differences between adult male and female interactions within one meter proximity in mantled howler monk...

Putting the Community Back in Community Ecology and Education: The Role of Field Schools and Private Reserves in the Ethical Training of PrimatologistsArticle published in the American Journal of Prim...

Recently, an article was published by the website OregonLive about the veterinary project that is coordinated by Hacienda Mérida. The article highlights the usefulness of these brigades, and includes...

On October 28, 2009, Hacienda Merida was awarded the top prize in the competition for the Jaime Incer Barquero National Prize for Innovation and Human Development, which attracted community-developmen...

Cal powder aka calcium hydroxide (aka slaked lime) was also added to the corn. Cal is often used in Central America to prepare corn-based recipes as it helps soften and tenderize the corn. I was unfamiliar with this inorganic product and am still unsure of how healthy it is, however I respected their use of the ingredient as part of their culinary culture...

I really need to stop partying the night before travelling. Being hungover on a crusty, creaking, seen-better-days, cargo-barge-cum-passenger boat is never a good idea. Although I have probably had worse boat rides, I was really wishing for it to be over near the end...

Looking back at my travels in Central America so far, I’ve been wondering if there has been a wholly unique place. The kind of place that is the epitome of the region; the kind of place you couldn’t find anywhere else in the world.

We recently had the pleasure of staying at Hacienda Merida on Ometepe Island, as enjoyable as the Hacienda was the school that is a bi product of it was an very pleasant eye opener.