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COSTA RICA
ORGANIZATIONS
OTS - Organization
for Tropical Studies The Organization
for Tropical Studies (OTS) is a non-profit consortium
that has grown to include 63 universities and research
institutions from the United States, Latin America
and Australia.
The
Fund for Costa Rica is a non-profit,
non-governmental organization which promotes biodiversity
conservation in Costa Rica.
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Costa
Rica Conservation Trust is a San Francisco
based, non-profit organization dedicated to protecting
biodiversity, advancing sustainable development
and promoting ecological, cultural, and educational
programs that advance respectful relationships with
the Earth.
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The National Biodiversity
Institute (INBio) of Costa Rica is
a private research and biodiversity management center,
established in 1989 to support efforts to gather
knowledge on the country’s biological diversity
and promote its sustainable use.
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Por las
Ballenas Our goal is to convince the
Costa Rica Goverment to participate in the world
anti-whaling comission and thereby help protect
the worldwide whale and dolphin population.
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Centro
Cientifico Tropical The TSC is dedicated
to the study of the relationship between human society
and the natural resources of the Tropics. Since
its establishment in 1962, prestigious scientists
and educators have built the TSC into one of the
most distinguished and influential research and
environmental planning institutions in Latin America.
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Praetoma
The work to ensure the long term survival of sea turtles
may focus on several approaches. One that PRETOMA
considers very efficient and gratifying is the protection
of nesting beaches. In many cases, the most effective
way of doing so is to work directly with the members
of coastal communities who have exploited the sea
turtle resource for generations.
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FECON
The Costa Rica Conservation Federation is a very active
organization what works in all fields from social and cultural
areas to its specialty: The environment and conservation
in Costa Rica.
Its main activity is to encourage and to
actively criticize actions taking place than harm the environment,
including deforestation, building of dams, overdevelopment
in some areas, water contamination, poaching and illegal
hunting, social injustice against local indigenous people
and even corruption.
The
Sea Turtle Survival League Sea Turtle Survival
League. In 1993, CCC established the Sea Turtle Survival
League (STSL) program to begin directly engaging in issues
that affect U.S. nesting populations of sea turtles. Drawing
on CCC’s four decades of international sea turtle
conservation experience, STSL is improving the survival
outlook for marine turtles in the United States, especially
in Florida (which supports 90% of all the sea turtle nesting
in continental U.S.), by (1) raising national awareness,
(2) advocating for protection of sea turtles and their habitat,
(3) empowering small, local sea turtle groups, and (4) providing
an award winning online Sea Turtle Migration-Tracking Education
Program.
The Osa
Sea Turtle Conservation Program was created
to improve and unify the current conservation efforts on
the Osa Peninsula's most important nesting beaches. The
Osa Sea Turtle Conservation Program’s mission is to
guarantee improvement in the overall health of endangered
populations of Olive Ridley, Pacific Green, and Leatherback
sea turtles by integrating conservation, research, and educational
outreach.
Nectandra
Institute carries out educational programs
for the general public, and conducts limited scientific
studies to support its educational goals. These goals are
to promote understanding of neotropical cloud forests: their
biodiversity, their ecology, and their importance to our
future.
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