Committed to Diminishing Deforestation

The Forman School Rainforest Project is a nonprofit program dedicated to rainforest education through scientific research with young adults from northwest Connecticut high schools. Our program’s philosophy is contributing to science and providing needed information on endangered species. The Rainforest Project started in 1992 as an exploration of the tropics. Since its inception, great strides have been made in gathering pertinent information in a professional way for universities and museums alike.

Updates from the Rainforest

Below are updates from the 2025 Rainforest Project team while they were conducting research in Costa Rica. Read on to see what they discovered!

February 24th, 2025: Caught a Talamanca cloud anole and 40 other species.

February 25th, 2025: The Bird Team has caught 14 species, including the olive-striped warbler!

February 26th, 2025: The Wild Cat team has set up a camera trap line of 33 cameras—that is a lot of SD cameras to keep track of! They are checking the SD cards along a couple of miles today.

February 26th, 2025: We captured footage of a female puma and a juvenile margay on our trail cams—very exciting!

February 27th, 2025: The Bird team caught a bird that was captured two years ago from the previous Bird Team on the Rainforest Project!

February 27th, 2025: The Reptile and Amphibians team processed a side-striped palm-pit viper, emerald glass frog, and rufus-eyed brook frog.

February 28th, 2025: The Bird team caught a white-throated spadebill, a green hermit, a black-footed solitaire, and a scaly-backed nightingale-thrush.

February 28th, 2025: The Reptiles and Amphibians team’s favorites of the day: the white-lipped forest racer and the masked tree frog.

March 2nd, 2025: Driving to our high mountain base camp—everything is good. Looking forward to a nice night hike in and a late dinner.

March 3rd, 2025: We’re now at Cuerici Biological Station at 2,600 meters—the night hike in went well. A hardy crew! Starting net and camera trap lines this morning.

March 5th, 2025: We’re doing good here in the jungles of the Talamanca Mountains—catching tons of birds, including the Barred Becard! The Reptiles and Amphibians team caught their holy grail.

March 6th, 2025: The Wildcat team captured a jaguarundi on a camera trap. It was the first recorded jaguarundi for the team! The Bird team caught a Wilson’s warbler.

Watch a video highlighting the 2024-2025 Rainforest Project and celebrating the 30th anniversary of the program!

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Forman School’s Rainforest Project and our work with spider silk was featured on BBC’s show “Animal Impossible” in 2020. You can find the episode, “Spiders,” on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.