{"id":38958,"date":"2016-08-11T06:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T10:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/?p=38958"},"modified":"2020-09-11T11:46:58","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T15:46:58","slug":"conservation-and-private-reserve-ownership-in-costa-rica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/blog\/conservation-and-private-reserve-ownership-in-costa-rica\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation and Private Reserve Ownership in Costa Rica"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conservation and Private Reserve Ownership in Costa Rica<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Forbes has ranked Manuel Antonio National Park as one of \u201cthe world\u2019s most beautiful national parks\u201d. \u00a0It is also one of the most popular national parks within Costa Rica. \u00a0The 26 national parks and 13 additional \u201cprotected areas\u201d within Costa Rica encompass primary and secondary rainforests, cloud forests, tropical dry forests,\u00a0marine environments\u00a0and wetlands. \u00a0They cover over 26% of Costa Rica\u2019s landmass according to the SINAC website, making the country a world leader in conserved land mass.<\/p>\n

Working in conjunction with the many national parks, investors have established\u00a0private reserves\u00a0in order to assist in maintaining the biological corridors surrounding the many protected areas. \u00a0According at the Watershed Markets organization website- \u201cA combination of political leadership and the continuous evolution of forestry sector laws since the 1960s (forest cover decreased from 72% in 1950 to 26% in 1983. \u00a0By 2002, it had recovered to 45%). During the mid-1990s Costa Rica, faced with the Structural Adjustment Programmes (SAPs) of the World Bank, was forced to withdraw the generous subsidies it had offered landowners for reforestation. This led the forestry lobby to search for other financing means, which in turn prompted the strong environmental movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watershed Markets goes on to point out the incentives for land owners- \u201cThe government-led Costa Rican PES Program (Payment for Environmental Services) rewards forest owners for four bundled Environmental Services\u00a0their forests provide\u2013 watershed protection, carbon sequestration, landscape beauty and biodiversity protection\u2026\u00a0Fondo Nacional de Financiamiento Forestal (FONAFIFO) and local NGOs like FUNDECOR, play important intermediary roles.\u201d<\/p>\n

This PES Program has benefited more than 7,000 land owners, and thus recaptured 26% of Costa Rica\u2019s land-mass-to-forest-cover from 1987 to 2000. \u00a0Privately owned conservation\u00a0projects have allowed tourists and locals to intimately experience the flora and fauna of Costa Rica.<\/p>\n

What this means for property owners is that through their dedication of land for conservation to the FONOFIFO program, they will be rewarded with funds to maintain this natural and undisturbed beauty. \u00a0Some owners use these private preserves for biodiversity education and research, while others establish retreats that are open to the public.<\/p>\n

If you are interested in getting back to nature and being your own \u201csteward of the land\u201d, look into the conservation of\u00a0private land\u00a0covering large acreage. \u00a0This is an investment that can be used as a means of living, while giving your investment a meaning worth living for.<\/p>\n

I hope you got value from reading: Conservation and Private Reserve Ownership in Costa Rica. If you would like additional information about migrating to Costa Rica,<\/b> ple<\/b>ase contact<\/b> our office HERE.<\/b><\/a> Here are a few really interesting articles about Costa Rica, and all the fun you can have whether you are contemplating a vacation or as an investment vehicle.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Conservation and Private Reserve Ownership in Costa Rica Forbes has ranked Manuel Antonio National Park as one of \u201cthe world\u2019s most beautiful national parks\u201d. \u00a0It is also one of the most popular national parks within Costa Rica. \u00a0The 26 national parks and 13 additional \u201cprotected areas\u201d within Costa Rica encompass primary and secondary rainforests, cloud […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"featured_media":38967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[32719,32715,32707,32701,2346,2340,32727,30984,9188,32716,32711,32726,32721,32713,32703,32724,32722,32709,32705,32725],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Conservation-And-Private-Reserve-Ownership-In-Costa-Rica.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38958"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41388,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38958\/revisions\/41388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38958"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.escapeartist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=38958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}