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If you travel throughout the provinces of Costa Rica, it’s easy to notice that in no other place you shall find fields with so many variations in their landscape and climate as here.

Costa Rica is one of most highly valued tourist destinations in this planet. This small piece of land includes all of the necessary components to satisfy the taste of thousands of travellers visiting each year.

Costa Rica’s territorial division includes 7 provinces, that is: San José, Alajuela, Cartago, Heredia, Guanacaste, Puntarenas and Limón. Together they offer an attractive tourist destination, of almost limitless possibilities, that include extense rainforests, volcanoes, rivers travelling through the mountains, beaches and natural resources safeguarded by an important organization of national parks and forest reserves.

The fact that more than one million tourists visit Costa Rica each year does not happen by chance. Our country, located in Central America, is an isthmus where life seems to have created its roots. Covering only 0.03% of the surface of our planet, Costa Rica has approximately 6% of the world's biodiversity.

In addition, Costa Rica is characterized by an impressive scenic beauty, consolidated system of protected areas, social and political stability, high educational levels, and efficient infrastructure and services. All these characteristics you can find in a territory of only 51 thousand square kilometers, surrounded by both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, only three to four hours away from each other by land or 45 minutes by air.

The country's strategic position, in the heart of the western hemisphere, the Government's positive attitude towards foreign investment, its infrastructure, access to international markets, and labor quality and cost, make Costa Rica an ideal place to establish commercial operations.

Costa Rica extends majestically from the Pacific Ocean to the Caribbean Sea, and its distance is barely 200 miles. Its land portion ocuppies only 20 thousand square miles.

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AVENTURAS VERDES

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ASANA

More info at www.asana.co.cr

In 1987 a group was born. The founders weren’t visionaries nor were they especially conscious of the future implications of the movement they were initiating. They were just plain concerned and, in some cases, angry. With improved infrastructure such as bridges, roads, electricity, and development starting to come to Dominical the local residents had become increasingly embittered at the sight of outsiders coming in here and shooting wildlife from their cars, poisoning our rivers to harvest fresh water shrimp to be sold elsewhere, leaving large amounts of trash on our beaches and roadsides, denuding and burning our forested hillsides and thereby mudding our rivers and streams. These frustrated residents banded together to try to do something about this adverse impact to their nature rich zone. The group organized was called “Amigos de la Naturaleza de Dominical (ANADO). It grew and gathered more supporters. Several years later it expanded to include Matapalo and Uvita areas. Today the group has evolved far past the scope of vision of that original vigilante group to become the primary environmental Non Governmental Organization (NGO) within the area and is now officially incorporated as the Asociacion de Amigos de la Naturaleza del Pacifico Central y Sur (ASANA) or the Association of Friends of Nature of the Pacific Central & South.

ASANA’s main objective is to connect all the fragments of forest between Terraba and Savegre Rivers, thus creating a natural corridor of protected lands which will have no interruptions and along which wildlife of all kinds can travel freely without the pressure of human depredation. The project is well advanced and is know locally and internationally as “Path of the Tapir Biological Corridor” It was officially recognized as the only portion of the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor that extends to the Pacific side of Central American Isthmus. That distinction has brought the Path of the Tapir Biological Corridor considerable notoriety.

ASANA’s strategy is not to acquire land, and form a mega national park, but instead to work with property owners to find ways that the remaining tropical habitats can be used to generate income for the owners without adverse impact to the environment. In many cases lands that were deforested will be restored to some semblance of their former forested state because for one reason or another it becomes advantageous to the owner to do so.

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Fund for Costa Rica

The Fund for Costa Rica is a non-profit, non-governmental organization which promotes biodiversity conservation in Costa Rica.

The mission of the Fund for Costa Rica is to support staff and programs in Costa Rica that will:

Carry out conservation efforts to preserve and enhance the environment, ecosystems, habitats and endangered species of Costa Rica
Educate the general public and the business community on the value of Costa Rica's natural environment and bio-diversity
Demonstrate and support effective environmental stewardship in all its practices.

The World Needs Models for Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation

The world's tropical forests are being destroyed at an astounding rate. The basic problem is that a standing, biologically diverse tropical forest creates little to no economic benefits for the private rural landholder. In order to generate income to support a family it is often necessary to cut the forest to sell the wood or to convert the area to another land use like cattle ranching or crops. If the world is to conserve and expand our remaining tropical forests substantial financial resources are needed to protect tropical forests from illegal cutting and to provide income for those rural landowners who protect this important resource. But who should pay to protect the forests? Ultimately, if forest conservation is to be financed sustainably, the "user" of the forest should pay for its protection. In many parts of the world, the nature tourism industry is the primary 'user' of standing and biologically diverse tropical forests. Without the forests and the monkeys, sloths, toucans, and other unique creatures tourists from around the world probably would not be visiting. Read more..

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CONSERVING OSA

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Donations to the Campaign may be made in several ways:

- People who are already donors to The Nature Conservancy or to Conservation International may make a gift to the Campaign through those organizations. Gifts should be designated for the Osa Campaign and will be tax deductible to the extent allowed by U.S. law.

- Donors seeking a U.S. tax deduction may also make a gift to CR-USA’s affiliated 501(c)(3) organization in the United States, http://www.amigosofcr.org. Gifts should be designated for the Osa Campaign.

- Donors who would like a tax deduction in Costa Rica may contribute to one of the Campaign’s local partners.

Please contact the Campaign for more information at www.osacampaign.org Read more... How to help ?

The Sierra

Reforestation

Foundation

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.

In an effort to help them be self-sufficient, Foy arranged to have over 400 orange trees planted around their village so eventually they would have a natural source of food and vitamins. He also arranged to plant a number of natural species of trees along the rivers to help stop erosion.

Thus began Foy’s love for reforestation, and soon after, he founded the Tropical Sierra Foundation (TSF).

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Conserving the Osa

In the early 1970s, a group of tropical biologists working on the Osa Peninsula waged a campaign to create a national park to protect what they realized was a place of global importance. With swift action by the Costa Rican National Park Service and help from The Nature Conservancy and other conservation groups, Corcovado National Park was created in 1975. Now encompassing one-third of the peninsula, Corcovado is the crown jewel in Costa Rica’s park system. However, scarce resources have created significant management challenges for the park, and the park’s few rangers are unable to curb illegal activities such as poaching, mining and illegal fishing.

Across the gulf from Corcovado, conservationists later targeted a second expanse of prime lowland rainforest on the mainland. If protected, this tract would complement the forests already conserved on the peninsula and provide additional habitat for wildlife. In 1991, the Costa Rican government established Piedras Blancas National Park with the hope of eventually connecting it with Corcovado to create a contiguous wilderness to ensure the preservation of biodiversity. But today almost half the lands within the park remain in private hands, still awaiting purchase by the government. Meanwhile, to the north, the Térraba-Sierpe national wetland was declared in 1994 to protect the largest mangrove forest on the Pacific coast of Central America.