Enable an encounter with a rare Pterocarpus Forest

With the Forest Tour App up and running -- and most of the feedback absolutely positive -- the Forest continues the project in a slightly different form and undertakes new initiatives to facilitate contributing to the Forest's function as an outdoor environmental classroom and an education resource  -- online and on-site.

To reflect developments over the past three years, including the creation of the tour app, we have embarked upon a total revamping of our bilingual website (pterocarpus.org) to add more information about the visits to the Forest and the availablility of the application (on line and on-site) and answers to the most frequently asked questions received in e-mails and phone calls. The new website should be launched within the next six weeks.

Finally, we've been adding more content more frequently to our social media, to enable visitors near and afar to have an encounter with tour rare Forest econsystem.  We revived an informational audio-visual, "Did you know...???" (¿Sabías qué……?)that each week focuses on interesting facts about a different species of flora and fauna found in the Forest (alternately on Tuesday and Thursdays).  We're also creating a new Instagram page that tells the story of the Forest in vivid, colorful ways for those who tend to frequent that app more so than Facebook or Twitter, the other platforms where the Forest has had a significant presence. And we continue to tweet items of interest to lovers of the Forest and friends of nature.

All of these undertakings have been made possible by the support of friends of the Forest like you.  Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at the Forest!

• Part of the revived "Did you know?" series. (PDF)
  

You can now visit the Pterocarpus Forest on your phone!

As reported in our report at the end of October 2020, the Forest Tour App has been completed and is now available. We are now able to offer a better, more complete encounter with a rare Pterocarpus Forest through this bilingual phone application.

Due to unabated concerns about Covid 19 a previously planned, celebration and fundraising activity and media event, postponed in 2020 and rescheduledfor the spring 2021, will not be held.

Despite the fact that the on-site launch has been postponed, the App has been made available to the visiting public on site and is downloadable on Google Play and the Mac App Store, for Android phones and iPhones only, as "Pterocarpus Forest".

The App includes an evaluation and donation section. Thus far, users of the App (on site) have given it very positive reviews as has been the word-of-mouth feedback. The donation section has yet to produce results, but we are hopeful that that will be another result. We hope to include new signage on-site, using a QR Code, so that visitors can make immediate donations in support of our efforts, whether they’ve used the App during their visit or not.

The App is a dynamic educational tool, so that you can expect periodic content changes and technological improvements to help the visitor better appreciate natural change within and around the Pterocarpus Forest.

Finally, an updated version of the story about the existence and availability of the App in the magazine Live & Life in Palmas in October,has been converted to a press release, with dissemination expected between now and the end of March 2021 in traditional and social media.

We again thank our friends and supporters for their assistance in making the Forest Tour App a reality.