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ITS A NUTSHELL
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THE CAMPUS OF CIRENAS...
The CIRENAS campus has been designed to be an educational tool focused on promoting concepts and practices that regenerate eco-systems and enhance the social patterns and economic systems in the region. Primarily conceived as a center for experimentation and idea generation, CIRENAS is tied closely to process of rural development in Costa Rica and the impacts of development on the local populace, economy, and eco-systems. As a didactic campus, CIRENAS offers opportunities to learn and teach about topics as diverse as regenerative agriculture and watershed-scale landscape management or social interactions in the local economy. In brief, the CIRENAS campus offers space for everyone, with vast learning opportunities limited only by the creativity of the student or visitor.
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At present, the CIRENAS campus features early stage permaculture systems, rustic but beautiful cabins, and an adjoining wildlife reserve. The majority of the campus is still in the planning stages, however, the core of CIRENAS, including classroom space and ample dining area, has already been completed. The campus was designed to feature local building materials on the infrastructure side, and regenerative agricultural practices on the production side, all in an effort to establish a model for appropriate rural development that could be replicated on a local or regional scale. Integration of locally available resources with the capacity of the local eco-system to provide was a critical part of the planning process. Among others, some of the main goals of the CIRENAS campus from the onset of the planning process were to provide a large percentage of the calories consumed by visitors on site, regenerate and improve campus soils, and replenish the local watershed.
TURTLE CONSERVATION
Rehoming a turtle nest requires the most gentle of hands and patience, our guides have a lot of experience in this area and ended up working hard for over an hour carefully uncovering and removing the eggs one by one into a bucket filled with sand from the nest, being sure to place them in the same positions they were found in order to ensure as little disturbance as possible.
Having already made a hole to mimic that of the turtle mother’s in Jakera’s secure hatchery, our guides began placing the eggs from the bucket into the new hole, again ensuring that the sand from the nest with the mothers DNA was sprinkled in their new home. Having counted the potential baby turtles whilst re-homing them, the total came to an incredible 123 eggs! In this day and age this is a huge number, we deduced that the mother must have been young and healthy which is excellent news in terms of what this could mean for the whole species, go mama!
These little babies are due to hatch in the new year when our team will be monitoring the nest for signs of movement every day!
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