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Beach Cleanup in Corcovado National Park: A Big Challenge!

July started with a significant challenge in our environmental education program: Beach cleanup in Corcovado National Park!

Since May, we have begun organizing, in alliance with other institutions and organizations, the Cleanup of San Pedrillo and Playa Llorona in Corcovado National Park.

These beaches, especially Playa Llorona, are places where the beauty of the wild and the natural come together with the disaster and pollution that live there due to the solid waste that arrives through the sea currents. Their complicated access to collect the waste is part of the challenge. 

Even so, we made an army, but of volunteers. More than 100 local volunteers entered the beach through the waves in boats, and in two days, we managed to collect more than 6 tons of garbage. I wish we could say that the challenge ends here, but the beach still needs our help to remove this waste.

Forest restoration:

In our mission to conserve natural spaces and connectivity, we have managed to reforest 4 pasture hectares, planting more than 4000 native trees. The change in the Golfo Dulce Forestry Reserve Farm is immense. Our camera traps have revealed the increase in biodiversity in the area. We went from having the presence of just two species at the beginning of the project to identifying 8 different species in the new habitat that we are recovering.

Nature-based solutions:

In addition, we continue to work with local communities and children. We continue to work with local farmers, exchanging seeds and knowledge, and work among farming families, promoting the use of organic fertilizers and the conservation of native seeds in our "Manos cambiadas" (everyone helps everyone). They are spaces where sharing, learning, and helping are the reason why we meet on each farm with each farmer interested in implementing more sustainable practices. "Don Fran," the last to join the group, shows us his fascination to learn another way of doing things since he has always farmed through the use of chemical fertilizers and insecticides and wants to see if he can grow in another way.

Environmental education:

In addition, our more than 60 children continue to learn weekly in the environmental groups. Now we have to work through art, where they are learning about an endangered species, the "Chancho de Monte," by creating a play they will perform at the Festival at the end of the year.

Help us in our misión to make a difference:

We look forward to rewarding all these children's efforts with an exchange of experience at the end of the year. Plan is ready, we need to make it real: a visit to a wildlife rescue center, a workshop in the coral laboratory where they will learn about their importance and patrols for the monitoring and care of sea turtle spawning. But we need a lot of help to make this dream real for our children. There are many transport and food costs, so every collaboration makes a big difference.