On May 29, 2025, Canopy Lodge was featured in the New York Times! El Valle looks like something out of a fairy tale — wrote Jeffrey Gettleman, the author of the article. He

On May 10, 2025, the world’s birding community joined forces for the annual Global Big Day, a 24‑hour birdwatching journey powered by eBird and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Around 1.8 million participants

By Virginia Rettig  With wonder and excitement, we embarked on a day-long journey to find the elusive Crested Eagle in the heart of the Darién. Our expert Canopy Family guide was Eliécer Rodriguez,

In 1998, twenty-six years ago, Cheryl Farmer and Arlene Golembiewski were the very first guests to stay at the Canopy Tower. Back then, the tower was a work in progress—there was no kitchen,

  For the third consecutive year, we are thrilled to celebrate an incredible achievement—our dedicated visitors David and Tamara McQuade, have once again finished #1 in both the American Ornithological Union (AOU) region

Text by Cameron Cox It was my privilege to be the last hawk counter in 2019 to count at Canopy Tower, before COVID changed the world. It was my great honor to be

To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, we’ve been sharing the inspiring story of how Raúl Arias de Para, Canopy Family’s president and founder, turned a vision into reality. In our previous Newsletter, we explored

Recently, we were featured in Peregrine Magazine! In this article, our friend Mike Dawson tells the story about his flight to Panama getting delayed because of the amazing raptor migration. Once in Panama,

Before opening the Canopy Tower, on January 1st, 1999, our president and founder Raúl Arias de Para was involved in many things. He was an international banker for 10 years, working in Panama,

Canopy Camp Darién: Always great, now even better! Sometimes, Darién is regarded as a far-away paradise but with harsh and limited conditions. It does takes around five hours from Panama City to get