"Reforestation Junta" with volunteers from everywhere! Our 2026 reforestation season officially began on June 1. We put on our new gear, laced up our boots, and headed into the field excited and ready for what we knew would be a long season ahead. But we also started with a lot of uncertainty. I want to be very open with you: this has been a difficult year. We began 2026 with a very clear plan. We expected to restore approximately 35 hectares in Los Santos and another 100 hec

By Isaac Barsoum Before June 16, 2026, I had never planted a tree. On that day, I joined Pro Eco Azuero’s Equipo Mono (Monkey Team), and thus began my time working on critical reforestation work in Panamá. Throughout the course of the reforestation season, Pro Eco Azuero would plant thousands of trees in more than a dozen reforestation sites across the Azuero, empowering communities, protecting water resources, and restoring critically endangered habitats. At the same time, w

By Benjamin Yatt Edited by Yadariselt Romano Traveling through Panama’s Azuero peninsula, it is impossible not to be struck by the heat, dustiness, lack of shade, and sparseness of greenery, created by decades of unsustainable cattle ranching, agricultural practices and tourist development. Pro Eco Azuero is working to reverse this damage through reforestation efforts. Reforestation requires much more than planting trees. This dry season, which started in December and lasts

Part of The Magnificos Team This year’s reforestation season was nothing short of extraordinary. Between May and August, as the first...

By Edalix Marín Before going to Panama to work with Pro Eco Azuero, I was not really sure what to expect for the time that I would spend...

By Edalix Marín When I first started interning with Pro Eco Azuero, two trees quickly caught my attention as I learned more about them:...

By: Itzel - a Volunteer When I was still a university student the concepts of climate change and reforestation work were very abstract...

Logos have always been more than just a visual marker for organizations. I recently stumbled upon a LinkedIn post that reflected on the...

By: Frida Ruiz As mentioned in the previous part of Tech in Conservation, there are many facets to conservation and the ways in which...

We are excited to share the success of our 2024 reforestation season, made possible by the generous support of our donors. Your...

By: Raphi Gold At the end of my first day reforesting with Fundación Pro Eco Azuero, I had only one thought: I never knew it was possible...

By: Raphi Gold One late afternoon in July, I found myself intensely focused, clutching strands of cogollo and binding them together in...

By: Frida Ruiz When imagining the remote, robust tropical dry forests of the Azuero Peninsula, technology doesn’t come to mind. Many...

By: Avery Yang As a high school student from southern California, I wasn’t sure what to expect when my uncle and I decided to volunteer...

By: Raphi Gold For over 200 years, the Guna people living on Gardi Sugdub have had a culture connected to the sea, building their lives...

From January 30 to February 10 of this year, the Pro Eco Azuero summer camp was held, in which more than 30 children from different...

Last May, a field study was carried out to record all the vegetation species identified in the Pedasí dunes, on the eastern coast of Los...

Environmental chemist Jean Carlos, intern for Geoff Lawton, permaculture enthusiast and advocate To those slightly familiar with it,...

Sure, you can look up images of places, people, and things. You can read articles, stories, and statistics. But there is really nothing...

A picture of Rio de Janeiro depicting the proximity of forested lands and human residence To many, deforestation is a word that can be...