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Living with Pumas and Tapirs in Costa Rica

12 / May / 2026

What does it truly mean to coexist with wildlife? In the remote community of San Josecito, in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, families live alongside some of the country’s most iconic species, including pumas and tapirs. This coexistence is extraordinary, but...

Together for Conservation: Our 2025 Impact

26 / Jan / 2026

Dear friends, donors, and partners, As we come to the close of 2025, we would like to sincerely thank you for walking alongside Corcovado Foundation. Thanks to your support, this year we strengthened biodiversity conservation, environmental education, and sustainable livelihoods...

Growing Food, Growing Futures: Environmental Education in Action

07 / Aug / 2025

This quarter, our Environmental Education Program has been sowing seeds of knowledge, sustainability, and empowerment across rural schools and communities in the Osa Peninsula. Through hands-on activities in organic farming, environmental clubs, and cultural exchanges, we’re cultivating the next generation of young...

The sea turtles need us! – Help us protect them!

09 / Jun / 2025

Donate here in Global Giving Help sea turtles reach the ocean safely! Playa Hermosa –Punta Mala Wildlife Refuge, Costa Rica During the 2024 nesting season, thanks to the dedication of our team and the invaluable support of volunteers from around...

Green Hearts: Children, Nature, and Hope in 2025

15 / Apr / 2025

This year, 2025, comes full of exciting projects.The environmental education program has launched a project in collaboration with the local government to promote recycling in the rural schools of Drake, through a recycling competition among rural schools. Through puppets and...

Guardians of the Coast: Sea Turtle Conservation at Punta Mala

15 / Apr / 2025

Every great journey begins with a single step—or in our case, a single turtle crawl across a moonlit beach in Punta Mala, Costa Rica. This past season, that quiet beginning turned into a vibrant story of international collaboration, ocean guardianship,...

Together We Build Change

23 / Jan / 2025

Dear friends of the Corcovado Foundation, As we start the year, we reach out to you with hearts full of gratitude and excitement for all that we have accomplished together in 2024. Your continued support has been instrumental in advancing...

The Corcovado Foundation has a new Executive Director

09 / May / 2024

After 23 years of service, passion and commitment to the environment and communities, our beloved Alejandra closes her cycle as Executive Director of our organization. That is why the Board of Directors has appointed Francisco Delgado as the new Executive...

Celebrating 20 years of carrying out environmental education in DrakeBay

04 / May / 2023

Last Saturday, April 15, we shared with the Drake Bay community a festival to celebrate the 20th anniversary of our environmental education program. The festival was well attended by families from the area, where they enjoyed workshops, typical dances, musical...

What does 20 years of the Foundation’s impact look like?

03 / Apr / 2023

Environmental Education After 20 years of promoting environmental education, we can testify to the impact of education on communities and their ecosystems. We are celebrating 20 years of building awareness and educating boys and girls on protecting Costa Rica's fragile...

Regenerative Tourism: A powerful force for good

16 / Jan / 2023

By Alejandra Monge - Executive Director of the Corcovado Foundation We are promoting regenerative tourism as a power to encourage coexisting and thriving Joining the tourism industry can be great motivation to promote ecosystem conservation. A farmer can sell a...

2nd edition of the Seeds with Identity Festival in Drake Bay.

24 / Nov / 2022

As part of its regenerative agriculture program, the Corcovado Foundation will be celebrating the second edition of the Seeds with Identity will be celebrating the second edition of the Seeds with Identity Festival in Drake Bay, where twenty-five regenerative farmers...

The mangrove project: Restoration Breathes New Life into the Cuajiniquil Mangrove

30 / Sep / 2022

By Inga Gusanova, Board of Advisors Corcovado Foundation and Board of Directors Nature Fund for Costa Rica Image of the mangrove area before starting the restoration project. Most recent photograph of the mangrove restoration project. Exciting and significant progress is...

Help us fund our Non profit Biohostel!

08 / Sep / 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UQEqhOWWCw This Biohostel is owned and operated by the Corcovado Foundation. The Biohostel is the home of our environmental education, regenerative agriculture, and restoration program. We do a lot of work, and all of this is possible because we have...

The sea turtle project in Punta Mala: we need volunteers

08 / Sep / 2022

We are back, and we need help at Punta Mala-Playa Hermosa Wildlife Refuge during the 2022 sea turtle season. This wildlife refuge is a government-run protected area. When we first arrived there, 90% of all the nests were being destroyed...

2000 trees by 2022

08 / Sep / 2022

We are planting trees; these are our babies, growing strong! “You should have seen Helena!” Francisco exclaimed, “she was carrying a heavy backpack, her baby on her thigh, and the basket filled with trees as she walked up the hill!” Francisco...

“Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”

23 / Mar / 2022

By Nick Deychakiwsky - Corcovado Foundation Friend Thanks so much to my friend Cindy Gibson who prompted me to write something, and thanks to so many friends and colleagues in philanthropy for your interest and support of Ukraine. It is...

Protecting Costa Rica’s Ecosystems

20 / Jan / 2022

by Josie Humbert - Volunteer How two weeks changed my life This past summer, I traveled to Central America to support the work of The Corcovado Foundation, whose mission is to protect Costa Rica’s natural heritage for future generations. By...

Corcovado Foundation Origins Story

19 / Oct / 2021

By Bradd Johnson - Founding director of the Corcovado Foundation The Corcovado Foundation Origins captures stories of the Osa and the creation and development of the Corcovado Foundation, seen through eyes of some of the people who first brought it to...

Mangroves, magical forests

15 / Oct / 2021

The Race to Restore Costa Rica’s Mangroves By William Callejas - Board of Advisors, Corcovado Foundation On Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast, three vital mangrove restoration projects are underway. Their survival or loss is in the balance, and the implications for all...

Mangroves, magical forests

14 / Oct / 2021

The race to restore Costa Rica’s Mangroves On Costa Rica’s Pacific Coast, three vital mangrove restoration projects are underway. Their survival or loss is in the balance, and the implications for all of us are significant. There are a couple of...

Hear about Heidi’s adventures in Corcovado

23 / Aug / 2021

By Heidi Warner - Donor I have always loved nature and wildlife. Before I could read and understand the content, I thumbed through old National Geographic magazines that my grandmother had accumulated over the years. It was in those magazines...

From Hollywood to a new career in sustainable hospitality

11 / Jul / 2021

By Jim Damalas Co founder Greentique Hotels Member of the Board of Directors of the Corcovado Foundation. Looking back some 25 years, the idea or vision to start a new career in Sustainable Hospitality was a risk I took when...

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.”

05 / Jul / 2021

I am not going to lie to you; I am a true tree hugger. Hugging a tree is the most fantastic experience. And now I see the experience in the eyes of the beautiful kids we work with at the...

Hint – this is a love story.

02 / Jun / 2021

By Bill MacLachlan Corcovado Foundation President How on earth did a Canadian from the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains become the President of Corcovado Foundation? Bord Of Directors I am fascinated with balancing humanity and nature and the sustainable...

7th grocery delivery for Drake Bay communities.

08 / Sep / 2020

Please help the Corcovado Foundation continue making grocery deliveries for seniors and the most impoverished families in Drake Bay. During the COVID 19 Pandemic, the economic situation in Drake Bay has been extremely critical. Drake's population lives directly or indirectly...

A challenging year for our sea turtle conservation program

08 / Sep / 2020

This year was a big surprise! Firstly, we had dozens of volunteers interested in supporting us at our sea turtle project in Rincón. Also we were going to support the new sea turtle conservation project in Playa Hermosa Punta Mala....

Environmental education, adapted to the “new reality”.

08 / Sep / 2020

For more than 17 years, our environmental education program has been working with boys and girls from the Osa Peninsula communities. Every week our environmental educator, Helena, taught 155 children in 6 schools and held meetings in the afternoons with...

Supporting sustainable tourism in the South Pacific

08 / Sep / 2020

Improvement for 5 Protected Wild Areas of the South Pacific Corcovado, Marino Ballena, and Piedras Blancas National Park, La Amistad International Park and Golfito Wildlife Refuge will benefit from 1700 million colones to improve their tourism infrastructure. (see the detail...

Costa Rica family vacation packages and private tours by Greenway Tours.

03 / Sep / 2020

Greenway Nature Tours is a Costa Rica Tour Operator specialized in Costa Rica Day Tours, Costa Rica Family Vacation Packages, Costa Rica Shore Excursions & Costa Rica Student Travel. With Greenway Nature Tours, you will get the professional advice of...