Costa Rica’s Pacuare River has long inspired those who know it. On October 31, 2025, it called people to action once again. With the sound of rushing water and rain in the background, more than 200 people gathered on the banks of the majestic Pacuare in Linda Vista de Siquirres for the Pacuare Libre event, […]
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Throughout 2025, the Rivers and Forests Alliance (RAFA) partnered with Rios Lodge on an ongoing environmental education initiative designed to improve water quality in the Pacuare River. As part of this program, individual travelers and visiting groups staying at the lodge on the banks of the Pacuare River learn about river ecosystems while engaging in
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On May 26, 2025, the Rivers and Forests Alliance (RAFA), EM Research Organization Inc., and Instituto Andrea Jiménez came together for a joyful day of hands-on environmental action at the San José–based school. Students, parents, and staff worked side by side to create nearly 800 mud balls infused with beneficial microorganisms, transforming learning into real-world
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On Earth Day 2025, RAFA was honored to welcome volunteers from the London Stock Exchange Group Foundation to Finca San Martín in Tres Equis, Turrialba, for a hands-on day of restoration, learning, and shared purpose. Together, we planted 320 native trees, directly contributing to reforestation efforts in the Pacuare River Basin and the restoration of
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On International Biodiversity Day, celebrated annually on May 22, the Rivers and Forests Alliance and the Global River Protection Coalition (GRPC) join the United Nations in calling for action to reverse biodiversity loss worldwide. The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, also known as the Biodiversity Plan for Life on Earth, as adopted on May 22, 1992,
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The Rivers and Forests Alliance (RAFA) is committed to reforesting the Pacuare River Basin and its surrounding areas to improve habitat connectivity in the biological corridor. Recently, RAFA partnered with the Barbilla-Destierro Biological Subcorridor – Paso del Jaguar to help our friends in the Nairi Awari indigenous territory plant 1,100 trees in their community. Nairi
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We are pleased to announce that the Rivers and Forests Alliance (RAFA) has joined 1% for the Planet as an environmental partner! Started in 2002 by Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia, and Craig Mathews, founder of Blue Ribbon Flies, 1% for the Planet has helped to direct hundreds of millions of dollars to approved environmental
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We recently received fantastic news from Dylan Stiegemeier, the Verto Education environmental history professor who initiated and led our reforestation project in November 2022 to plant 1,000 trees. His master’s thesis on “Assessing transformative learning impacts on first-year university students using large-scale conservation projects on students’ environmental attitudes and pro-environmental behaviors” has been published in
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To celebrate the founding meeting of the Guardians of the Pacuare, a “dream team” of volunteers planted 360 trees on May 27, 2023, to restore the rainforest and biological corridor in the Pacuare River Basin. When I say “dream team,” I mean it! In only one hour – yes, you read that right, ONE HOUR
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We are delighted to announce that the Citizen Water Observatory Rio Pacuare Turrialba-Siquirres has been officially accepted into the National Network of Citizen Water Observatories of the National Alliance of Rivers and Watersheds of Costa Rica. Our OCA (using the acronym in Spanish) is the 94th in Costa Rica! It was formed under RAFA’s Guardians
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