You can help protect one of the world's most beautiful and diverse habitats when you Adopt an Acre® today.
Day or night, the Osa Peninsula crawls with life. Howler monkeys greet the break of dawn with a thunderous roar while scarlet macaws wing over treetops as the sun begins its slow trek across the sky. Tapirs cool themselves from the hot midday sun in cool, sparkling rivers while poison-dart frogs hop in the nearby vegetation. At night, jaguars stalk moon-lit beaches looking for prey.
At Costa Rica's southwest corner, 400,000 forested acres of the Osa Peninsula jut into the Pacific Ocean. Only a strip of white sand beach separates the lush rainforest from the sea. The forest is alive with a wealth of magnificent plant and wildlife, including jaguar, puma, sloths and four species of monkey. You'll also find 4,000 plant species, including trees that can grow more than 200 feet tall.
A Threatened Paradise
Historically, the dense forests and rocky terrain of the Osa Peninsula shielded it from the outside world. But improved transportation and expanding development now threaten the peninsula. Osa's forests are starting to disappear as this once isolated land increasingly attracts farmers, hunters, developers, gold miners and tourists. Sadly, lands are being cleared for logging and agriculture at a higher rate than anywhere else in Costa Rica. Illegal logging, poaching and ill-conceived land-use activities further threaten the region.
How The Nature Conservancy Works on the Osa Peninsula
With the Costa Rican government and a strong network of partners, The Nature Conservancy is working to protect and maintain the Osa Peninsula’s forests and coastal areas. We are doing this in a variety of ways, such as:
How The Nature Conservancy Works on the Osa Peninsula
With the Costa Rican government and a strong network of partners, The Nature Conservancy is working to protect and maintain the Osa Peninsula’s forests and coastal areas. We are doing this in a variety of ways, such as:
Acquiring and protecting land
Strengthening the management of protected areas
Hiring and training park staff
Creating a 100,000 acre biological corridor between Corcovado and Piedras Blancas National Parks
When you give today to the Adopt an Acre® program, you will help the Conservancy protect and restore one of the world's most extraordinary yet highly threatened regions. You can also call 1-800-84-ADOPT to donate.
Personalized certificate with signature photo of the Osa Peninsula commemorating your generosity
Colorful fact sheet about the Osa Peninsula
Adopt an Acre® Osa magnet set
Adopt an Acre® world map
Four issues of Nature Conservancy magazine to keep you informed all year about the many places the Conservancy is working to protect. (Plus, we'll rush the current magazine issue along with your personalized certificate!)
An invitation to create a personalized nature homepage on nature.org
Great Places E-Newsletter subscription to our monthly e-communication with local conservation updates, enviro-tips you can use and stunning nature photography downloads.
Best of all, you'll get the satisfaction of knowing you're helping to protect this extraordinary wild habitat now and for future generations. Please Adopt an Acre today!
An Eco-Bulletin "e-zine" published to alert the people of the world about the plight of the Leatherback Turtles' nesting beaches in Costa Rica. President Oscar Arias is pushing a bill through the legislature to downgrade the status of the Las Baulas Marine National Park to allow condominiums and other developments to take place on the turtle's nesting grounds. This magazine presents the case for the defeat of this proposal and for the continuation of the National Park to help insure the survival of the Leatherback Turtles
