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Abstract:
The proposed project aims to prevent the imminent destruction of
some of the last remaining large areas of rain forest in the
Sarapiquí region of Northern Costa Rica, and at the same time,
to use those forests to establish a conservation economy through a
community based nature tourism project. The conservation economy is
needed to insure the long term stability of both the present and future
protected areas of Sarapiquí, by creating an economic interest group
within the human populations surrounding the protected forests. The
overall project contains six stages, which will be executed in succession,
as funding reaches the corresponding target levels. The Nature Conservancy
(TNC) is acting as fiscal agent, and the Costa Rican government has expressed
a willingness to expropriate the target properties if necessary. This
project is being organized and supported by a coalition of conservation
organizations: Sarapiquí Association for Forests and Wildlife,
OTS (The Organization for Tropical Studies), TNC, FUNDECOR (The Foundation
for the Development of the Central Volcanic Mountain Range), COMBOS (The
Conservation and Management of Tropical Forests), and ABAS (The Association
for the Environmental Well being of Sarapiquí).
Thomas S.Ray
Tue Aug 1 16:54:18 JST 1995