• Visit and support the famous Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve in Costa Rica, the hosts of Cloud Forest Alive - email montever@cct.or.cr.

• This Week's Guide Lesson - A new natural history lesson and photo every week from local guides in remote forests! See this week's lesson from the forest or view over 85 previous lessons.
• Live Wild HummingbirdCam - Incredible images of cloud forest hummingbirds in the wild, including past highlights and online field guide.
• This Week's Tropical Insect Photo Challenge - visit every week to try to identify a new up-close photo of a cloud forest insect. View 82 previous "insects of the week".
• QuetzalCam! - the story of our world famous project to install live cameras inside the nests of wild Resplendent Quetzals at Monteverde. Hundreds of photos, history, biology, and more.

• Maps, facts, and figures about cloud forests in Central America.
• Cloud forest sounds - hear monkeys, frogs, insects, and other cloud forest noises.
• Wallpaper gallery! Use some of the best Cloud Forest Alive pictures as your computer wallpaper!
• Take the Cloud Forest Quiz - see if you can pass the test.
• Learn about cloud forest research - who's doing science at Monteverde?

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• How to get involved - Learn about various opportunities, or support Cloud Forest Alive.
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Famous live webcam inside wild Resplendent Quetzal nest.

Live wild webcam in the tropical cloud forest. Some of the world's smallest and most beautiful birds.

New lesson every week from cloud forest guides and scientists in Costa Rica.

New insect photo every week.

This website was developed to enhance global understanding of the unique and important cloud forests of Central America. Through their impact on water and soil quality, climate patterns, and numerous known and unknown plant and animal species, cloud forests profoundly affect life surrounding them and life around the planet. Current financing and management provided by the Tropical Science Center and Forum One Communications. Past support from the World Bank and the Central American Commission for Environment and Development (CCAD). Contact Wagner Lopez info@cloudforestalive.org with comments or questions.