By Alejandra Monge | Executive Director
SOS! We need your help now!
Dear friend of the Corcovado Foundation,
I am reaching out to you because you have shown us that you care about our cause. Either you have donated in the past, have volunteered in our programs or have stayed at the hostel/camp and learned about what we do. This year has been an exceptionally difficult year for our turtle conservation program.
This is our second year working at Rio Oro Wildlife Reserve. We came to this remote spot of the Osa Peninsula because both the ministry of environment and the local communities asked for our support in protecting this incredibly important beach. There are more turtles on this beach than any of the other beaches in the Costa Rican South Pacific…and poachers know it well.
Last year we received help from another NGO who had a grant to work there and partnered with us to achieve this huge endeavor. This NGO didn’t receive funding this year and therefore we are alone working on this precious beach.
Our only source of funding is the turtle volunteer program and Globalgiving. And our expenses are huge! We have to pay for the lodging, food, salaries and stipends of the biologists that relentlessly walk the beach every night to protect the turtles. Because we need help financing the costs of transportation we have asked for the help of government authorities. We also need their help in stopping the egg poachers who visit to this beach every day. We haven’t received any support, even though this is a protected area and the responsibility of Costa Rican government. We are working all alone.
If we don’t get help very soon, we won’t be able to maintain the program past October 15. We need to raise at least $9000 USD in order to stay in Río Oro until the end of the year. In addition to monetary contributions we could use more volunteers. We need more boots on the ground to protect this beach, especially in the next 3 months.
Anything can help, $10, $20 anything. Please help us maintain this huge effort!
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