Rainforest and Turtle Conservation In Costa Rica

The last year has been a very challenging one for everybody in every corner of the world. In Costa Rica, a country that depends on the tourism industry to finance the conservation of ‘one of the greenest countries in the world’ the lack of international visitors has heavily affected the funding of environmental protection and all the people involved. In Tortuguero this loss of external revenue put a big strain on the livelihood of local people and the projects in the National Park. The slowly increasing numbers of international visitors in the beginning of this year, inspired us to restart our projects again.

The beneficiaries of this fund collect essential data on diversity, abundance and behavior of the wildlife in an endangered habitat. In close cooperation with the local national parks service, SINAC, we are able to collect data that is essential to the management decisions in the conservation of the National Park and its residents. Located at the southern end of the National Park, we collaborate with the only field station collecting this essential information in the most remote part of the park. Although we are able to do the research with minimal resources, funds gathered through GVI Charitable Funds allows our partners to acquire essential field tools to expand the reach and efficiency of our projects. We also believe that community is closely related with conservation. Only an empowered community has the luxury to think about conserving its environment.

Thanks to local and global collaboration with various partners and your much needed donations through GVI Charitable Funds we are able to continue and expand our efforts to conserve this unique habitat on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

We thank you wholeheartedly for your support in our efforts to create a greener and cleaner future!