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Support for Corcovado
National Park and ACOSA
The Corcovado Foundation
has signed an  agreement
with ACOSA in order to assist with certain expenses in the operation
of Corcovado National Park. With the help of individual donors and
some other environmental organizations, the Corcovado Foundation
has started paying the salaries, providing uniforms, equipment,
and transportation for eight full-time park rangers to patrol and
protect the surrounding forest and also a forestry engineer who
has helped us detect anomalies in logging permits.
Due to budget shortages,
work such as clearing the boundaries of the national parks and regular
patrolling has not been done, as it should have in the recent years.
Yet these efforts are absolutely essential to ensure the integrity
of these areas.
With financial assistance
from the Costa Rica-United States of America Foundation (CR-USA),
Conservation International, The Nature Conservancy, and Verein Regenwald
der Oesterreicher, among other organizations, the Foundation has
finished work to clear and post the northern boundaries of Corcovado
National Park and the Guaymí de Osa Indigenous Reserve.
The Corcovado Foundation,
with this help, is also paying for environmental instruction for
park rangers, buying equipment and supplies to help them be more
efficient, and has strengthened the park system by hiring more rangers.
OTHER PROJECTS MANAGED BY THE CORCOVADO FOUNDATION:
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Funded by: |
AVINA |
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Project: |
Grupo Los Jaguares |
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Environmental Education & Youth Group in Drake Bay area. |
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2 |
Funded by: |
CR-USA Foundation |
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Project: |
COVIRENAS |
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Financial support and training for ad-honorem community
park rangers |
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3 |
Funded by: |
CR-USA Foundation |
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Project: |
Biological Corridor Coordination |
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Financial support and logistics for the Osa biological corridor |
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4 |
Funded by: |
CR-USA Foundation |
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Project: |
Technical Coalition of the OSA Biological Corridor |
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Management of salary for the Biological Corridor coordinator |
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5 |
Funded by: |
PNUD / United Nations |
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Project: |
COVIRENAS |
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Financial support for 6 new committees of ad-honorem
community park rangers |
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6 |
Funded by: |
UNESCO |
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Project: |
Biosphere Reserve Nomination |
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Nomination of the Osa area as a Biosphere Reserve |
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7 |
Funded by: |
Conservation International |
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Project: |
Programa de Control y Protección del
Parque Nacional Corcovado y Piedras Blancas |
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Financial support and equipment of park rangers and facilities |
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8 |
Funded by: |
Costa Rica Rainforest |
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Project: |
Save the Corcovado National Park (Hire a Park ranger) |
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05 Park Rangers / Corcovado & Piedras Blancas National Park |
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9 |
Funded by: |
Regenwald der Osterreicher |
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Project: |
Contratación Guardaparques |
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02 Park Rangers / Piedras Blancas National Park |
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10 |
Funded by: |
TNC |
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Project: |
ACOSA Training Program |
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Training Curses on Environmental Law, First Air, Rescue, etc. |
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11 |
Funded by: |
CEPF (CI, IBRD, GEF & MacArthur Foundation) |
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Project: |
Control & Protection Plan |
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Financial support (equipment, supplies & maintenance) |
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12 |
Funded by: |
Lapa Ríos |
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Project: |
Hire one Park Ranger |
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01 Park Ranger / Corcovado National Park |
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13 |
Funded by: |
CR-USA Foundation |
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Project: |
ACOSA (Areas of Conservation OSA) Strengthening |
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Integration of all protected areas to the Corcovado Campaign |
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Management of salary for ACOSA Director |
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14 |
Funded by: |
Fundación CR-USA / UCR -UFL |
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Project: |
World Heritage Site Declaration |
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Declaration f the Osa area as a World Heritage site |
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