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In her ‘magic’ way: Dr. Nora Bynum retires after leading worldwide education and research efforts

On November 15, the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) honored Dr. Nora Bynum by creating the Dr. Nora Bynum Fund for Inclusion. She’s a fitting recipient of this recognition, given her dedication to conservation education and research over the past 30 years.    Bynum received her doctorate degree from Yale University’s...
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November 15, 2024 by Rachel Damiani
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Traveling to South Africa for the first time with OTS

Photo credit: Laurence Kruger My friend and I traveled together from Denver, CO. As we lugged our bags through the Johannesburg airport, a man approached us and asked if we were with OTS. Although we had no identifiable markings as being with OTS, somehow these fellow travelers recognized us, perhaps...
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September 30, 2024 by Rebecca Louden
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Letting the Tree Stand: OTS Experiences South Africa 2024

Photo credit: Laurence Kruger I ended up in South Africa on a whim, and while this may make me seem like an unserious person, in truth, I am not. But having toured OTS in La Selva almost twenty years before, I didn’t hesitate to bet my first post-retirement adventure  on...
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September 30, 2024 by Katharine Haake
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Carpenter Bequest

Photo via LinkedIn All of us at OTS are deeply grateful and excited to announce the bequest to OTS of $430,000 from the Francis Lynn Carpenter Trust. Lynn, a professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California, Irvine, one of OTS’ permanent member institutions, was a central and...
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September 30, 2024 by Jennifer Kelley
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OTS South Africa turns 20

It's been just over 20 years ago that we launched the OTS African Ecology and Conservation courses in South Africa after two years of careful discussions. Thanks to the initial funding from the Mellon Foundation, a partnership between OTS, WITS, UCT, and SANParks emerged in the form of a study...
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September 30, 2024 by Laurence Kruger
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An excerpt: “Quetzals: Icons of the Cloud Forest”

Quetzals: Icons of the Cloud Forest Alan F. Poole Photo credit: Zona Tropical Publications The following is an excerpt from Alan F. Poole's book, Quetzals: Icons of the Cloud Forest: “……a bird of such incredible beauty that for 200 years European naturalists thought it must be the fabrication of American...
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September 30, 2024 by Alan F. Poole (Retired Editor, "Birds of North America Online;" Associate, Cornell Lab of Ornithology)