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 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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GRPC Statement on International Day of Action for Rivers March 14th, 2024 We celebrate the International Day of Action for Rivers as enthusiastic, committed social and environmental scientists, educators, researchers, conservation advocates, and policy experts. We urge colleagues at jurisdiction-based agencies, not-for-profit organizations, and outdoor industry trade organizations to support this year’s campaign, ‘Water for
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Thank you to all the incredible students and staff of the Verto Education Costa Rica program who helped us plant 1,500 trees on December 6 to reforest the Pacuare River Basin. We are very grateful to the Costa Rican electrical company ICE for donating the native species trees. The project is the second reforestation by
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The Rivers and Forests Alliance (RAFA), together with the Macaw Recovery Network (MRN) and the Citizen Water Observatory (OCA) Rio Pacuare Turrialba-Siquirres held a grand reforestation event on October 28 to restore the connectivity in the Barbilla-Destierro Biological Subcorridor and the Pacuare River Basin. With 92 volunteers ranging from 2 to 71 years old, we
1,615 More trees planted in the Pacuare River Basin! Read More »
On October 6, RAFA celebrated the first Festival of Spheres with the Citizen Water Observatory (OCA) Rio Pacuare Turrialba-Siquirres, under the umbrella of the National Alliance of Rivers and Watersheds of Costa Rica and the Guardians of the Pacuare program. The event marked Rafa Gallo’s birthday and his passion for preserving the Pacuare River with
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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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