Costa Rica is internationally renowned for its natural beauty and long tradition of environmental protection. Tropical forests and maritime sanctuaries make Costa Rica a magnet for scientists and visitors alike. Not only is it a good place to live and vacation, it also offers amazing investment opportunities.
Should you decide to buy here, you may want to consider — the decision is a personal one — contributing to the preservation of one of the assets that make Costa Rica so special.
A tradition of environmental protection
Costa Rica is a pioneer in tropical conservation. Beginning in the 1970s, it managed to put roughly 24% of its land area into national parks or forest reserves, one of the higher percentages in the world. In recent years, new maritime reserves have been added.
However, the challenge has shifted from establishing parks to investing in their future, in order to make sure they survive and flourish for years to come. Once again, Costa Rica stepped up to the
challenge and leads the way.
The Osa Campaign, an international private-public partnership, is helping finance the long-term sustainability of the world renowned Corcovado National Park and the Osa Conservation Area, within which Corcovado sits.
The Osa Campaign
For readers who are not familiar with the Osa, just imagine an area less than half the size of Rhode Island, which harbors 2.5% of the world's biodiversity. According to the latest international scientific estimates, this represents the highest concentration of plant and animal species on earth.
Imagine the scarlet macaw and the rare harpy eagle, just two of the more than 375 species of birds, joined by 117 species of reptiles and amphibians, 124 species of mammals – including the jaguar and the panther – and 8,000 odd species of insects.
Osa Peninsula
The Osa Campaign was put together by the San José-based CRUSH Foundation, Conservation International and The Nature Conservancy, with the participation of Costa Rica's Ministry of the Environment. The campaign supports not only conservation per se, but also grass roots development, necessary to make local communities stakeholders in tropical nature, Costa Rica's main natural resource.
The task is to raise US$32.5 million (about US$20 million have been raised to date). To ensure adequate long-term funding, the Osa Campaign is building, as one of its components, a US$10 million permanent endowment (jump started by a US$3 million challenge grant from the CRUSH Foundation). Administered and audited in accordance with international standards, these trust funds will help Costa Rica keep the Osa healthy for the long haul and provide guarantees to donors that their gifts will be used properly.
The campaign – buttressed by a substantial grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation – has already succeeded in stemming the emergency caused by illegal logging and hunting, by adding 57 much needed park guards, who from this time forward will be funded from the national government budget.
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