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RAFA and Instituto Andrea Jiménez Partner on Mud Ball Eco-Project

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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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Earth Day in Action: Reforesting the Pacuare River Basin

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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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RAFA helps plant trees in the Nairi Awari indigenous territory

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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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RAFA restores forest connectivity in the Biological Subcorridor Paso del Jaguar with 7,965 trees!

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Working with the Barbilla-Destierro Biological Subcorridor Paso del Jaguar, the Rivers and Forests Alliance (RAFA) has planted 7,965 trees since October 2021 to restore forest connectivity and wildlife habitats in the Pacuare River Basin. The Pacuare River Basin is part of the Barbilla-Destierro Biological Subcorridor Paso del Jaguar, a habitat for jaguars, wild peccaries, three

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RAFA and Verto Education reforest the Pacuare with another 1,500 trees

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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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Master’s Thesis on RAFA tree planting published in Sweden

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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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RAFA’s Guardians of the Pacuare plant trees in the Pacuare River Basin

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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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Make a difference in the conservation of Costa Rica’s rivers and rainforest!

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We extend a heartfelt thank you to our first big donor, the Wayne Grey Wilson Foundation in the U.S., for their very appreciated donation at the end of last year to fund our administrative costs for part of 2023. The gift helps us forward our conservation programs and goals toward protecting and preserving the Pacuare

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Historic ATTA Carbon-neutral Forest is Flourishing

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Six years after the historic event of planting 5,000 trees in one day, making the Adventure Travel Trade Association’s 2016 Adventure Travel World Summit carbon neutral, the forest in Costa Rica is thriving. New growth is already happening under the 20-foot-tall canopy, and the mature forest is providing a habitat for wildlife like birds, wild

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