Connecting Forest islands in Costa Rica

“Connecting Forest Islands in Costa Rica”, David Alvarez’s property, was LRFF’s first project on Global Giving. We won the GG Open Challenge in August 2009 because of your generosity, donating more than $4000 from 50 unique donors. Giant Studios made the final donation to fund the project in November...

A short update for all of you who gave so generously to the “Connecting Forest Islands, Costa Rica” project. Because of you we earned a permanent place on the Global Giving philanthropic website last year during the GG Open Challenge. The project was planted on the David Alvarez farm in Aguacate de Tilarán on...

This past Tuesday, January 5, 2009, the tree maintenance crew cleaned the “Connecting Forest Islands in Costa Rica” project property belonging to David Alvarez. The property is located in Aguacate de Tilarán and was planted on November 27th. The baby trees are doing absolutely great! They didn’t need much...

On Friday, the 27th of November we planted a 2½ hectare biological corridor on the property of David Alvarez in Aguacate de Tilaran, Costa Rica. The story with photos begins on Wednesday the 25th. Bright and early Wednesday morning the eleven-man crew left LRFF headquarters to dig the holes for the tree planting on...

GREAT NEWS!! Last Friday, the 20th of November we received the rest of the funding for the “Connecting Forest Islands in Costa Rica” from just one generous donation. The donors are Giant Studios. They have been working on the soon to be released (December 18th) film Avatar directed by James Cameron. In the movie the...

Progress Report Connecting Forest Islands in Costa Rica Since posting our project on the Global Giving website there has been an upheaval of challenges, disappointments, heart warming experiences and changes. From the very beginning to the end of the Global Giving Challenge the La Reserva Forest Foundation’s...