Institution Affiliates

Auroville Bio Resource Centre in Pitchandikulam Forest, India is an environmental education facility for the local community with a focus on the teaching of conservation, identification and use of indigenous medicinal plants. For more information about practica and research opportunities, contact Heidi Watts.

Auroville Bio Resource Centre
Health In Harmony supports an innovative program in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, that partners with local communities to integrate high quality, affordable health care with strategies to protect the threatened rain forest.

La Isla Foundation Located in Leon, Nicaragua, the La Isla Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to fighting an epidemic of Chronic Kidney Disease in sugarcane plantation workers of Chichigalpa, and throughout Central America.

The Monteverde Institute, Costa Rica Education for a sustainable future. The Monteverde Institute hosts the Antioch University New England field study trip in Costa Rica and supports students looking for research and practica opportunities in Central America. For more information, contact Beth Kaplin.

New England Primate Sanctuary is dedicated to the lifelong care of captive primates that are castoff from entertainment and research, or can no longer be kept as pets. Sanctuary is their permanent refuge for safe, more natural lives.

Tropic Ventures Sustainable Forestry Project Silvicultural techniques developed and applied at Las Casas de la Selva in Puerto Rico over the last two decades, demonstrate that on a small scale, secondary forests can be ecologically and economically suitable for sustainable timber production. This eco-technology was implemented to encourage similar practice in the Caribbean and globally, as a contribution to economic development that encourages protection and sustainable management of secondary tropical forests.