Corcovado Foundation has contributed to the creation of a Rural ecotourism network, joined by 6 differents communities on the Osa Peninsula, which goal is the conservation of the rainforest, it also helps with sutainable educational programs in local comunities of the osa peninsula, Costa Rica,
The Corcovado Foundation has been a trusted and reliable community partner for over 20 years. Our environmental work is north of the Osa Peninsula and there is a symbiosis connecting our mission statements and our work. We are a small organization and look to the Corcovado Foundation for guidance and mentorship; we are grateful for both.
FC is a responsible organization that take actions, beyond any speech. They are seriously committed to improve and positively change the conditions of our planet helping protected areas, biodiversity, ecological integrity and life quality for families of very rural and remote areas to produce under regenerative practices. They’re well organized, with a strong leadership and making a substantial difference in Costa Rica.
My husband and I volunteered with the Corcovado Foundation in 2021 during our honeymoon and it changed our lives. This group is doing so much with very few resources, and are protecting the beautiful animals that we all love (sloths, monkeys, turtles, etc.) through sustainable community empowerment and practices. With them we worked on a turtle protection project, made compost for local farms and sorted through beach garbage (much of which has washed in from the ocean as a gift from other countries). We planted native trees on private property to improve the ecosystem services on the land. We also were given the honor of going to local schools while the foundation staff taught the kids about the animals and how to protect them. We met former Corcovado Foundation students who are now running conservation projects as adults because the program inspired them so much, they dedicated their lives to it! The wonderful staff and volunteers that we met are so full of positive human character, I could write a book profiling them.
If anyone is looking for a worthy cause to donate to or volunteer for - I witnessed the amazing impact this group is having with very few resources, stewarding one of our most amazing places on earth!
I have visited some of their projects in Costa Rica and was very impressed with the psgotve impact to the rural communities in sustainable means of regenerative agriculture.
I am very impressed with how this organization is managed and the variety of projects this group manages. I personally was able to participate in sea turtle conservation at Punta Mala. I will remember this experience forever. To be able to release baby turtles into the ocean is priceless. I also participated in planting trees and learning hands on about regenerative agriculture. In addition I helped with a holiday party for one of the schools. The smiles and laughter of the children is another memory that will last a lifetime. Great work Corcovado Foundation. I will be back to help out soon.
The Corcovado Foundation has year after year managed to improve the quality of their work, while improving their reach and quality of life of whole communities. It is rare to find a nonprofit that works in synchrony with human and whole ecosystem sustainability. Not only they deserve all the financial support they need, they also need to be held as a role model for similar efforts around the globe.
I believe in giving back when I visit places. The Corcovado Foundation is a perfect way for people like me to sustain the places we want to preserve for future generations of local community members and the ecosystems of plants and animals who also inhabit the area. We brought field equipment and administrative supplies. The region is so beautiful. I am deeply grateful to the people dedicated to maintaining places and wildlife and who are helping the local communities with job options and ideas.
Asesoro a la Fundación en temas de mercadeo digital. Sin duda se nota el gran trabajo que hacen por las comunidades y proyectos que apoyan. Es muy satisfactorio poder formar parte del equipo y de los esfuerzos que hacen para la sostenibilidad y conservación.
I have been working in Costa Rica’s southern Osa Peninsula for over 20 years now. I have witnessed much of the work that the Corcovado Foundation has done. What a difference they have made! When I first arrived in ‘97, logging and illegal hunting were rampant in the area. After they teamed up with the government and private donors to hire rangers this Illegal activity dropped dramatically. Their environmental education programs have helped create a culture of sustainability in the local towns that can be seen on a daily basis. Lately, their sea turtle conservation program has been helping to curb the assault on these majestic animals
Our community is grateful to have this organization working for us. Thank you so much!
I have been working with the Corcovado Foundation since 2010 and I have seen the development of the communities, the great effort in conservation that has been made and the difference that this has made in rural populations.
Without a doubt, it is a strong organization, a leader in conservation and with a lot of energy and determination to continue contributing in a positive way to the environment and the sustainable development of the rural populations with which it works.
Working with the Corcovado Foundation, I have found the staff and volunteers to be a tireless group of advocates and project activators who protect and preserve human and non-human life on the Osa Peninsula and in other areas of Costa Rica. They are hands on with delivery of their environmental education programs to kids and young adults, hands in the sand protectors of sea turtle nests on the beaches of the Osa, and fiercely committed to supporting the sustainable economic development of the rural communities to maintain a balance with nature and participation for residents in the nature-based tourism. They fill gaps with funding and volunteering in support of the handful of park rangers protecting Corcovado National Park from fierce groups of poachers, miners, and hunters. This is a group of doers who are making a difference in a part of the world well worth protecting for all of us.
Empower local communities to conserve and regenerate the natural resources is our goal and the foundation is full of people that really bealive on that and works hard every day to achive this goal
The Corcovado Foundation is the most effective community-based conservation entity in Costa Rica. And that's saying a LOT! My first encounter with them was in Drake Bay about 1999 when I discovered they had the only community recycling program on the Osa Peninsula. Having moved to Costa Rica from Oregon, USA, where I managed the waste reduction programs for our county, I was impressed with the serious efforts they were making in difficult situations. Committed to this cause and changing Drake Bay one recycler at a time. Their efforts included boating the collected and sorted materials to a site for processing and distribution.
Today, the Foundation is involved in so many additional efforts that weave together conservation, environmental education, community health & safety, women's projects, and most importantly the work they do to develop the future environmental leaders of Costa Rica. They are on-the-ground, hands-on, in schools and online (during this Covid time), managing turtle nesting projects, delivering much needed food to residents impacted by the tourism stoppage, developing top notch projects to improve the country's national parks and infrastructure, and never rest on their laurels. There is always another goal or need to fill.
I am so proud to support this organization as a donor and also as a member of the board of advisors. I see first-hand their dedication and relentless pursuit of more effective means to increase the protection of the Osa Peninsula, its wildlife and its residents. For people with few resources, the idea of conservation is a luxury they feel they cannot enjoy until their kids are safe and healthy. CF connects them to conservation and their environment and shows them they are part of a bigger biological system and gives them tools to understand it and, most importantly, to Care about it.
"We will only conserve what we love, love what we understand, and understand what we are taught." African Ecologist, Baba Dioum
I discovered The Corcovado Foundation when I visited a Greentique Hotel, Aguila de Osa, whose owner (Brad) was there at pretty much the beginning. Many subsequent visits to the Osa convinced me of the tremendous and necessary work they do all over the country. And that's why I got involved!
I choose to support the Corcovado Foundation in many ways. I donate my time as an advisory board member and I support it by giving donations from each tour we operate as Sierpe Outfitters. I made the conscious effort to support them because they are a hands on organization making a DIRECT real difference in the communities and they are in touch with the needs of the locals both for the present and the future. I know many of the people who work for them and they are all 100% dedicated to making a difference.
The turtle project work the Foundation does is amazing. The accommodations are basic, but safe and clean and the opportunities they give volunteers to make a difference are a once in a lifetime experience.
This is an excellent nonprofit that works with and involves the community in conservation efforts and leadership. I had a wonderful experience both summers I went back in 2011 and 2012. I still keep in contact with my host family to this day and miss them a bunch!
Hello everybody!!! I have been a volunteer in august 2013. In my time spent here I could saw only 2 turtles (beginning of the season) but I spent here wonderful almost two weeks. Without notice it I leant a lot about people living here, about nature and relations between people and nature. I met a lot of amazing volunteers, local guys. I saw a tapir, caiman, monkeys.... I shared house with frogs, cockroach, I ate from one plate with a hen. I spent one whole day in the beach patrolling the hatchery (giving infos to some tourists passing by).... Simply my life changes to better thanks to this programm. Do you want to help and experience somethig unbelievable? Go there...they are waiting for you.
Corcovado Foundation have been working very hard on the certification of Tour Guides in Costa Rica. This is great because they are helping the people in a very different way. They are not giving the fish as a gift to the persons, they have been teaching them how to fish and that is the sustainable way to do the thinks. Keep supporting the kind of concepts and I´m sure, they will helping more people.
I have been with the Corcovado foundation as a volunteer in 2007 and I am following the progress of their projects since. I am convinced they really do a good job and make a difference for the area.