PARTNER RECOGNITION: INSTITUTE FOR TROPICAL ECOLOGY (ITEC PANAMA)

With its recent achievement of over 10,500 Almendro trees planted over the Bocas del Toro providence, Planet Rehab started to focus on the next step which involves the Great Green Macaw restoration. Obviously, if the organization had tried to plant that many trees itself, it would have taken years. But it wasn’t alone. There were numerous other organizations, local groups, and individuals that help to make that goal come to fruition.

One such group is the Institute for Tropical Ecology (ITEC Panama) here in Bocas del Toro. The ITEC has a research and education facility on the island of Isla Colon at Boca del Drago. They were founded in 1996 in Florida, USA, and established the Bocas del Toro site just a year later. Offering field research and hands-on-experiences to the wonderfully diverse ecosystems of the area, they have hosted thousands of students from hundreds of universities from around the world.

Planet Rehab is proud to be a tiny part of their program by donating saplings to the reforestation and ecology programs that ITEC has been running. Follow them on IG!