Ketchikan Canopy Adventure Cypress Valley Canopy Tour HSBC Tree Top Walk Falealupo Walkway Lamington National Park Operation Drake 1979 Papua-New Guinea Batuampar Walkway Lambir Hills National Park Poring Hot Springs Taman Negra National Park Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Gardens Jarvselja Forest Kakum Forest Reserve Tsitsikamma Canopy Tour Operation Canopee 1991 Operation Canopee 1999 Operation Canopee 2001 Ecoparque de Una Caparu Station Reserva Palmari Amamcayacu Naional Park Amazonia Expeditions InkaTerra Posadas Amazonas ACTS Yacumama Lodge Zungaracocha Momon Tropenbos Caqueta Tiputini Boidiversity Station Jatun Sacha Canopy Walkway Choco Canopy Walkway Operation Canopee 1996 Operation Canopee 1989 Iwokrama Operation Drake Panama Operation Canopee 2003_4 Rain Forest Aerial Tram Rincón de la Vieja Cloud Forest Canopy Tour Iguana Park Canopy Tour Bluefields Camp Luquillo Forest JASON V Mt Trails Equestrian Lodge Univeristy of the South Selby Gardens Myakka River SP Millbrook School Coweeta Hopkins Forest EcoTarium Hampshire College Haliburton Forest Vancouver
Biogeographic regions adapted from Clemson University
 

Facilities are listed here as a service to the Canopy Research Community by CCA. For a list of Canopy Cranes, please visit www.globalcanopy.org/canopycam/index.php.

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Neartic

Access Type
Name Of Site
Location
Time Frame
Habitat
Use(s)

walkway

Hopkins Memorial Forest

Williamstown, MA, USA
1990 - present
Temperate Deciduous
education, research

walkway

Millbrook School

Millbrook, NY, USA 41°50.75' N, 73°37.26'W
1995 - present
Temperate Deciduous
education, research

walkway

Coweeta Hydrologic Station

Coweeta, NC, USA 35°N, 83°30'W
1993 - present
Temperate Deciduous
research

platform

Selby Gardens

Sarasota, FL, USA 27°19'N, 82°32'W 1994 - present Live Oak canopy education, research

walkway

Hampshire College

Amherst, MA, USA
1993 - present
Temperate Deciduous
education, research
walkway
Mayakka River State Park
Sarasota, FL, USA 2000 - present Temperate Deciduous (oak, palms) research, tourism
walkway
Worcester, Massachusetts, USA 1999-present Temperate Deciduous (oak, hickory) education, tourism
walkway Sewanee, TN, USA 35 °12'N, 85 °55'W 2002 - present Temperate Deciduous education, research
walkway +
traverse lines
Spicewood, TX, USA 2005 - present Temperate Deciduous tourism

walkway

Haliburton Forest

Haliburton, Ontario, Canada

? - present White Pine Forest tourism

walkway

Vancouver Island

Vancouver Island, BC, Canada 48°44'N, 124°37'W

1990 - present Old Growth Forest research
walkway +
traverse lines
Ketchikan, AK, USA 2005 - present Spruce, Hemlock, Cedar; Old Growth Fores eco-tourism

Neotropical

Access Type
Name Of Site
Location
Time Frame
Habitat
Use(s)
walkway

JASON V
Blue Creek, Belize 16°10'N, 89°5'W 1994 - present tropical wet rain forest research, eco-tourism
walkway

Mt. Equestrian Trails Lodge
Belize 1994 - ? tropical rain forest eco-tourism

aerial tram

Rain Forest Aerial Tram
Braulio Carrillo NP, San Jose, Costa Rica 1994 - present tropical rain forest eco-tourism, education

traverse line

Rincón de la Vieja
San Jose, Costa Rica 199? - present tropical rain forest eco-tourism

traverse line

Cloud Forest Canopy Tour
Monteverde, Costa Rica 199? - present cloud forest eco-tourism

traverse line

Iguana Park Canopy Tour
San Jose, Costa Rica 199? - present tropical transition forest eco-tourism
walkway

Luquillo Experimental Forest
Puerto Rico, USA 18°19'N, 65°45'W 1990's? tropical rain forest research

traverse line

Bluefields Camp
Providence Island, Mar Caribe, Colombia 1997- present tropical rain forest research, education,eco-tourism

platforms

Caparu Station
Lago Caparu, Amazonas, Colombia 1996 - present lowland tropical rain forest research

walkway

Parque Nacional Natural Amacayacu
Amazonas, Colombia 1998 - present lowland tropical rain forest research, education,eco-tourism

walkway

Tropenbos
Pena-roja, Caqueta, Colombia 1990's? tropical rain forest ?

walkway

Operation Drake
near Punta Escoses, Daren, Panama 1979-1980 tropical rain forest research

walkway

Ecoparque de Una
Ilheus, Bahia, Brasil 15°S, 39°W 1997 - present Atlantic rain forest eco-tourism, education

traverse line

Reserva Natural Palmari
Rio Javarai, Amazonas, Brasil 4 °17'N, 70 °17'W 1998 - present tropical rain forest eco-tourism, education

portable raft

Operation Canopeé 1989
French Guiana 5°4.36'N, 53°3.15'W 1989 tropical rain forest research

portable raft

Operation Canopeé 1996
Paracou, French Guiana 5°15.29'N, 52°56.32' W 1996 tropical rain forest research, education

portable raft

Operation Canopeé 2003-4
STRI, Panama 2003-4 tropical rain forest research

walkway

Iwokrama
Kurupukari, Guyana 2003 tropical rain forest tourism

walkway

Momon River Lodge
Upper Momon Rio, Iquitos, Peru 1990 - ? tropical rain forest eco-tourism

walkway

ACTS
Napo Rio, Peru 3°15'S, 72°54'W 1991 - present lowland tropical rain forest eco-tourism, education, research

walkway

Reserva Amazónica
Madre de Dios, Peru 12°35'S, 69°05'W 2004 - present lowland tropical rain forest eco-tourism, education

traverse line

Yacumama Lodge
Rio Yarapa, Iquitos, Peru 4°34.04'S, 73°27.04'W 1997 - 2003 lowland tropical rain forest eco-tourism, education, research

traverse line

Amazonia Expeditions
Rio Tahuayo, Iquitos, Peru 4°48'S, 73°13'W 2000 - present lowland tropical rain forest eco-tourism, education

towers

Zungaracocha Lodge
Iquitos, Peru 1997 - present secondary rain forest eco-tourism, education

tower

Posadas Amazonas
Madres de Dios, Peru 200? - present tropical rain forest tourism

walkway

Tiputini Biodiversity Station
Tiputinu River, Ecuador 76°10'W, 0°40'S 1998 - present lowland tropical rain forest research, education

walkway

Choco Canopy Walkway

Los Cedros, Ecuador 0°20'N, 78°50W 1997 - present cloud forest eco-tourism

walkway

Jatun Sacha Canopy Walkway
Jatun Sacha Biological Field Station, Napo, Ecuador 1998 - present tropical rain forest research, education

Afrotropical

Access Type
Name Of Site
Location
Time Frame
Habitat
Use(s)

portable raft

Operation Canopeé 1991

Reserva de Fauna de Campo, Cameroon 2°30'N, 10°0'E
1991
lowland tropical rain forest
research

portable raft

Operation Canopeé 1999

La Makande, Abeilles Forest, Gabon, Africa
1999
tropical rain forest
research, education

portable raft

Operation Canopeé 2001

Cette peninsula, Madagascar
2001
tropical rain forest
research, education

walkway

Kakum Forest Reserve

Ghana, West Africa
1995 - present
tropical rain forest
eco-tourism
traverse line
Tsitsikamma Canopy Tour Tsitsikamma National Park, South Africa 2004 - present Podocarpus forest tourism

Australasian

Access Type
Name Of Site
Location
Time Frame
Habitat
Use(s)
walkway

Lamington National Park

Queensland, Australia 28°13'S, 153°7'E
1986 - present
subtropical cool rain forest
tourism, research
walkway

Operation Drake

Buso, Morobe, Papua New Guinea
1979 - 1980
tropical rain forest
research
walkway

Falealupo Walkway

Falealupo, Savai'i, Western Samoa
1997 - present
tropical rain forest
eco-tourism

Oriental

Access Type
Name Of Site
Location
Time Frame
Habitat
Use(s)
walkway

Batuampar Walkway

Batuampar, East Kalimantan, Indonesia
1998 - present
tropical rain forest
eco-tourism
walkway

Aerial Walkway

Bukit Lanjan, W. Malaysia 3 °10'N, 101°37'E
1968 - 1976
tropical rain forest
research
walkway

Poring Hot Spring Canopy Walk

Sabah, Borneo
2004 - present
tropical rain forest
tourism
walkway

HSBC TreeTop Walk

MacRitchie, Singapore
2004 - present
tropical rain forest
tourism
walkway

Lambir Hills Walkway

Lambir Hills NP, Sarawak, Malaysia 4°20'N, 113°50'E
1991 - 199?
tropical rain forest
research
walkway

Taman Negara Walkway

Taman Negara NP, Malaysia
1992 - present
tropical rain forest
eco-tourism
walkway

Xishuangbahnna Tropical Botanical Gardens

Bubang Nature Reserve, Yunnan Province, P.R. China
1996 - present
Shorea forest
eco-tourism

West Paleartic

Access Type
Name Of Site
Location
Time Frame
Habitat
Use(s)

towers

Järvselja Forest

Southeastern Estonia 58°22'N, 27°20'E
1998 - present
temperate deciduous forest
education, research

East Paleartic

Access Type
Name Of Site
Location
Time Frame
Habitat
Use(s)

None Reported
<2004