Home Contact Us Jobs Site Map Store Videos About the Zoo Animals Book Your Event Conservation Camps & Programs Schools Special Events CONSERVATION PROGRAMS RESEARCH PROGRAMS GREEN PROGRAMS ENDANGERED SPECIES      RESERVE FUND ANIMAL INVENTORY CAZA/AZA PROGRAMS COTERC PARTNERSHIPS / LINKS COTERC The Canadian Organization for Tropical Education and Rainforest Conservation (COTERC) is a registered Canadian non-profit charitable organization based in Pickering, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1991, COTERC operates in both Canada and Costa Rica. In Canada, our Board of Directors are biologists, accountants, educators, environmentalists, zoo professionals, media professionals -- all committed and working actively to protect tropical rainforests. In Costa Rica, COTERC is based at the Caño Palma Biological Station. Go to: www.coterc.org and see how you can help to conserve in the lowland flooded forests of Costa Rica. Some projects include a large mammal monitoring program, a study of the nesting behaviour of birds in a flooded palm forest or monitoring of sea turtle egg laying site in the Caribbean.