Your Adventure Starts Here!
We would like to offer a warm welcome to visitors to the DANTA website. DANTA is a non-profit organization run by people who share a great concern for the plight of the world's rainforests. We hope to make a contribution to preserving these magnificent ecosystems through our education programs and our support of local conservation enterprises.
We invite you to join our efforts, by taking part in one of our exciting courses held at
El Zota Biological Field Station, situated in one of the most bio-diverse regions of Central America. As our organization grows, we plan to run courses in other outstanding locations in the tropics. Wherever our courses are held, our expert and enthusiastic faculty will provide an authentic and highly educational rainforest experince that you will never forget.
Our Mission
We at DANTA believe that education must be the cornerstone of any long-lasting conservation policy. Through our classes we aim to raise the level of understanding of tropical fauna and flora, with an emphasis on both the complexity and vulnerability of these hugely important ecosystems....
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Recent News
- New Web site!
Just launched our new web site for 2009! Thanks for your support and making this possible. - Summer 2009
Professor Peter Slater lectures in
the Tropical Ornithology Course.
read more... - Aug. 2 - Aug. 9, 2009
DANTA Offers an Ecotravel Experience in Costa Rica