SAVE
THE MANATI Our mission is to promote
the conservation of manatees and their habitat (i.e.
wetlands and lowland rainforests) in Costa Rica and
neighboring countries. To carry out this mission we
implement activities within the following working
lines.
The RESTORING
NATURE FOUNDATION and ZOOAVE.
Zoo Ave Wildlife Conservation Park is one of three
wildlife projects owned and operated by the Nature
Restoration Foundation (NRF). It is an officially
recognized Costa Rican wildlife rescue center and
premier zoological facility.
Foundation
for Costa
Rica Sustainable development ENTEBBE
was created by a group of professionals in order to
promote, teach and
Strengthen the sustainable development throughout
the country.
Costa
Rica National Parks Foundation
While much of Costa Rica has been stripped of its
forests, the country has managed to protect a larger
proportion of its land than any other country in the
world. In 1970 there came a growing acknowledgment
that something unique and lovely was vanishing, and
a systematic effort was begun to save what was left
of the wilderness. That year, the Costa Ricans formed
a national park system that has won worldwide admiration.
Foundation
Paniamor is a Costa Rican, non-for-profit,
non partisan, private organization, of a preventive
and technical nature. It was created in 1987, and
declared of Public Interest by the Costa Rican Government,
in 1990. The foundation organizes its work along three
permanent programs, as follows:
AMBIO
was created in the year 1989 in response to the growing
development and the always larger gap between environment
and humans population in relation to the perfect idea
of sustainable development. AMBIO was one of the fist
non profit foundations to include the human beings
in the structure of sustainable development, which
had never been done till those early 90`s years.
The main mission of FUNDAION
OMAR DENGO is to improve education all
over the country. Currently, the efforts of the foundation
have benefited over 1.5 million Costa Ricans. Other
missions of F.O.D. are to improve technology in schools
all over the country, including extreme rural areas
and little towns and villages in sometimes almost
inaccessible areas.
The main mission of FUNDACION
ACCESO is to encourage and improve and
strengthen the capacity of the Costa Rican society
to build intelligent, active and sustainable societies
and communities.
MarViva
promotes the safeguarding and creation
of marine protected areas in oceanic and coastal areas
in Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide support
for the implementation of legislation protecting these
areas, the enforcement of existing laws, and efforts
to establish new reserves. Our overall aim is effective
change toward a more sustainable use of coastal and
marine resources.
Vida Marina Foundation was founded in
2004 in order to create and maintain a protected marine
area off the coast of the Osa Peninsula, on the South
Pacific side of Costa Rica. Delfin Amor Eco Lodge,
where the foundation is based, has been collecting
data, taking ID photos and filming cetaceans since
1999, a solid base of research which enables us to
better understand the great variety of species in
the area, their behaviors, and the threats that exist
to them. For instance, through the data collected
on our research tours, we have discovered that almost
80% of the Olive Ridley Sea Turtles have been killed
in the last four years.
Photo: Sierra
Founded in 2003, Friends
of the Osa (FOO) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit
organization with offices in both Washington, D.C.
and Puerto Jimenez, on the Osa Peninsula.
The
Bosque Lluvioso Río Costa Rica
is a rainforest preservation project in partnership
between the Institute Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio),
a Costa Rican NGO commissioned to inventory the entire
biodiversity of Costa Rica, and the Bosque Lluvioso
Foundation (the Foundation), a nonprofit 501 (c)(3)
Corporation, based in Salt Lake City, Utah, established
for the purpose of finding ways to preserve some of
the few remaining tracts of virgin rainforests in
Costa Rica.
The Talamanca
Dolphin Foundation Lodge is a non-profit
organization dedicated to the wild dolphins and people
of Atlantic/Caribbean coastal Talamanca, in Costa
Rica. The idea for the Foundation came on the heels
of several exciting scientific discoveries made and
documented by Shawn Larkin, Vanessa Schot, Willie
Burton, Ann DiBerardinis and Mary Ahlers in April,
1997.
The
Tropical Sierra Foundation began many
years ago as an idea in the mind of Foy Streetman.
Foy was on a trip, to the north of Costa Rica, visiting
the Rio Indio Lodge in Tortuguero and learned that
many of the local indigenous children were suffering
from Rickets, a disease caused by malnutrition. The
local tribe had also lost virtually all their livelihoods
when the trees were burned during the Sandinista wars.
The
Surfrider Foundation was started in 1984
by a group of surfers in California because the beach
that they loved was being polluted. The organization
spread to other nearby beaches until it membership
was over 100 men, women, and grommets. In 1992 Surfrider
received non-profit status from the U.S. government
and was able to get financial assistance.
Foundation
for the Conservation of Costa Rica. The
Fundación Conservacionista Costarricense, also
called the Costa Rican Conservation Foundation, was
founded in 2002 by concerned Costa Ricans and biologists.
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