Children's Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica
Learn more about the Children's Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica's largest private reserve, is home to an incredible diversity of plants and animals. It protects vast freshwater resources for people, farms, hydropower projects. And it helps connect protected areas by way of biological corridors. You can visit the Children's Eternal Rainforest in and near Monteverde, La Fortuna, and La Tigra de San Carlos.
Jungle Expedition through The Children’s Eternal Rainforest
After a one hour ride in a four wheel drive truck through mountain paths, we will arrive at the Pocosol Station, a scientific research center created to study the flora and fauna and which is located alongside a lagoon of volcanic origin at 1100 meters above sea level. During our 4 hour long hike through 7 kilometers (4.45 mile) trail we will admire the primary forest, the volcanic soil with its fumaroles, the Pocosol Waterfall with a height over 50 meters (164 feet), the observation deck which allows us to watch its fall into a river canyon, as well as the areas’ incredible flora and fauna including a large variety of animals, like wild boars, coatis, agoutis, howler monkeys, and many types of birds.
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Enjoy a unique experience and explore the Children Eternal Rainforest on our one-day tour, visit the waterfall, fumaroles, trails of more than 10 kilometers and a diversity of unique flora and fauna.
The Children's Eternal Rainforest: Biodiversity
The Children's Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica's largest private reserve, is home to an incredible diversity of plants and animals. It protects vast freshwater resources for people, farms, hydropower projects. And it helps connect protected areas by way of biological corridors.
Children's Eternal Rainforest
Dr. Bob Law was one of the main men responsible for preserving the amazing biodiversity in Costa Rica. The children around the world sent funds to help buy land. Fantastic area of the world!
Bell Bird at Children's Eternal Rainforest, Monteverde, Costa Rica
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Children's Eternal Rainforest
A day at Children's Eternal Rainforest in Monteverde, Costa Rica and an epic mountain sunset!
Bajo del Tigre Reserve Flyover, Children's Eternal Rainforest
Drone footage at the Bajo del Tigre Reserve, Monteverde, part of the Children's Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica's largest private reserve. Video by Jeffrey Arguedas.
Children's Eternal Rainforest / Bosque Eterno de los Niños
Children’s Eternal Rainforest (or “BEN” after its Spanish name, Bosque Eterno de los Niños) is the largest private reserve in Costa Rica, bought and protected thanks to the fundraising efforts of children from around the world. The campaign was sparked by a group of Swedish primary school students in the late 1980’s, and quickly gained support from other schools, individuals, and organizations from 44 different countries.
Straddling 7 different life zones, the BEN is one of the most biologically diverse 23,000 hectares on the planet. Although it covers just 0.0048% of the world’s land surface, it is home to a wildly disproportionate amount of the world’s flora and fauna: 2% of the world’s orchids, 3% of the world’s butterflies, and almost 5% of the world’s bird species, to give just a few examples.
The BEN is also important as a watershed, feeding numerous downstream communities, farms, and hydroelectric projects. And it is the backbone of a block of protected areas that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors to Arenal, La Fortuna, and Monteverde each year, providing the economic mainstay for thousands of local families.
The BEN is owned and managed by the Monteverde Conservation League, a Costa Rican nonprofit organization founded in 1986. To date, the MCL’s main achievement has been to purchase and protect this wonderland, and it continues to acquire critical, strategic pieces of land when funds area available. The organization’s main focus now, however, is on other forms of consolidation – specifically, seeking ways to achieve greater financial sustainability, strengthen its education programs, and foster more research in the BEN. We need your support to make this happen!
Visit and learn about the BEN at the following locations:
Bajo del Tigre Reserve (Monteverde)
San Gerardo Station
Pocosol Station
Finca Steller
Jamie - Children's Eternal Rainforest
Video of Jason talking about the last pair of jaguars in the rainforest here (Children's Eternal Rainforest in Monteverde, Costa Rica)
San Gerardo Station Flyover, Children's Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica
San Gerardo Station offers lodging, meals and trails nestled deep within the Children's Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica's largest private reserve. Views overlook the Arenal Volcano and its lake. Video by Jeffrey Arguedas.
White Faced Monkey - Children's Eternal Rainforest, Monteverde, Costa Rica
White Faced Monkey - Children's Eternal Rainforest, Monteverde, Costa Rica
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Luke and Amelie tell us about Bosque Eterno de los Ninos
Monteverde, Costa Rica
Monteverde is one of the must visit places in Costa Rica with its lush cloud forests, abundant bird watching, crazy ziplining and unique trees and plants. We visited Monteverde for 10 days this March 2017, see our adventures in the cloud forest.
Places we visited: Santa Elena, Curi-Cancha Reserve, Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve, Santa Elena Cloud Forest, Bajos del Tigre Children's Eternal Rain Forest
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Invitation to Greta from Monteverde, Costa Rica
Dear Greta,
Monteverde, Costa Rica invites you to visit our mountaintop community on your travels through Central America.
On September 27th, 2019, close to 500 people walked out of school or work to march with Fridays for Future. The surrounding population is only about 6,000 people. It was the largest protest in Costa Rica that day and as far as we know, the largest Fridays for Future event that has happened in Costa Rica.
Students at the Escuela de los Amigos (Monteverde Friends School) organized this event with the support from students at CIEE, the Children’s Eternal Rainforest, the Monteverde Commission for Resilience to Climate Change (CORCLIMA) and other organizations.
Swedish children have a history of inspiring and influencing this community. In the 1980s, children from Sweden sparked an international effort by children to raise money to create the largest private reserve in Costa Rica which is why it is called the Children’s Eternal Rainforest.
Monteverde is a place of healing where tangible actions to combat greenhouse emissions are happening. CORCLIMA is a public-private effort to unite Monteverde to reduce emissions, capture carbon, and adapt to climate change. Together we aim to capture much more carbon than we emit and are working to serve as a model of resilience for Costa Rica and the world.
We hope you will come to experience the biodiversity of our unique cloud forest—an ecosystem vulnerable to climate change. We humbly urge you to visit Monteverde, Costa Rica and are working on a video invitation that we will send you soon.
We would be happy to arrange free hospitality for you and your traveling companions. There are many options for you to choose from as Monteverde receives about 250,000 visitors a year.
With admiration and gratitude,
Students of the Monteverde Friends School (Escuela de los Amigos Monteverde)
Students at CIEE, Monteverde
the Children’s Eternal Rainforest of the Monteverde Conservation League
and the Monteverde Commission for Resilience to Climate Change, CORCLIMA
Children's Eternal Rainforest Dawn Chorus - Costa Rica
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An hour-long recording of the early morning in the Children's Eternal Rainforest preserve in Costa Rica. The rainforest wakes up and begins the day.
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Fog in Bajo del Tigre - Children's Eternal Rainforest, Costa Rica
Ziplining through the cloud forests in Monteverde, Puntarenas, Costa Rica
Superman Zipline! So much fun!
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