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Pierella Ecological Garden

Pierella Ecological Garden

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Birdwatching

Butterfly farm

Sloths

White Bats

Chocolate

Overview

In this site you can observe the diverse phases of butterflies. The species shown are native to the area, including some species of the genuses Morpho, Caligo and Heliconius. You can learn about their feeding and life cycle. You will also be able to observe other species of insects that mimic their environment like the so-called juanpalo (family Phasmidae), the European mantis (Mantis religiosa – Mantidae family) and the incredible species of the genus Mimetica, called leaf katydids.

We also have sites to observe three species of frogs: the strawberry poison dart frog, the green-and-black poison dart frog and the red-eyed tree frog. You can also see many birds, and get to know the two species of sloths that decided to make this site their home. It’s a perfect place for adults and kids. The trail can be walked on foot, but is also accessible for wheelchairs and strollers.

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Ethics

At Terra Incognita we support tours that do good in the world. They must help conserve the environment, support local people and provide educational opportunities for guests and staff, or be actively working to improve in these areas.

What conservation activities do you support through the tour, and your wider operations?

We are a butterfly farm where we breed chrysalids for exportation in a forest which 25 years ago was pastureland for cows and chemicals. Now, thanks to the butterflies, this is a forest and a natural habitat for many species of animals and has been chemical-free for 25 years.

How does the tour support local people?

This tour is 100% Costa Rican lifestyle: local people working breeding the butterflies, cooking and birdwatching, with every animal in their natural habitat.

What type of environmental education activities do you incorporate into your tour?

Is so impressive to know the metamorphosis process. We teach visitors how we breed and they can try and help us, for example by bringing caterpillars to their specific plant to eat, or selecting the different species of chrysalids and bringing them to different spaces for hatching, and, when the butterfly is ready... laying some eggs...!

Top 5 achievements

1. No chemicals.
2. Habitat for many species of animals that 25 years ago were not present here, for example: sloths, poison dart frogs and red-eyed tree frogs, birds, basilisks, insects, white bats and 5 other different species of bats, butterflies, fish, monkeys, snakes, wild rabbits, and many more. This is because there was no plants or trees here, only grass for cows and many chemicals.
3. Educational tour for everyone - local and visitors - to understand how bad chemicals are for the environment. If we use one chemical, for example to grow a plant faster, then the frogs and some insects are going to die, and those insects are important foods for many others animals like bats, bird, basilisks, armadillos. Everything is important in the nature.
4. We cook with a wood stove to use natural resources that we have everywhere and also we have our own coffee, chocolate, milk, cheese, herbs, fruits, and many things we produce, which we show to our visitors. Also when we cook we have classes on Costa Rican traditional meals in our rustic typical kitchen with a wood stove.
5. We improve everyday, always trying to help the environment more and reduce the impact of the technology on nature.

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Pierella Ecological Garden

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Butterfly farm for the export of chrysalids, which gives the opportunity to have a habitat for a hundreds of species of animals without chemicals, while preserving nature.

20 years ago this farm was a pasture land. There was no trees, no plants and no animals, but the idea of breeding butterflies to export chrysalids to all the world brought the opportunity of work while preserving environment - planting every kind of native plant to make a forest where hundred species of animals find a habitat.

In this garden we can easily find: about 60 different species of birds, sloths, about 6 different species of bats, like the amazing white bat "ectophylla alba", more than 100 different species of insects, many native amphibians - for example the pretty "Red-eyed tree frog" or the colorful poison dart frogs - snakes, monkeys, many butterflies, and many more things....

This garden is peaceful, among hummingbirds and nature, in the middle of the rainforest.

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Group size

From 1 person to 40 people, but every tour is personalized.

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