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SARAPIQUI NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION

(CRENASA)
Tirimbina is an active member of the Natural Resources Commission, a discussion forum where more than 10 local and national organizations actively participate in order to make environmental decisions about their respective communities. The goal is to join efforts, avoid duplicating project implementation and increase the physical area covered. By combining each member institution’s existing programs with new cooperative projects, more successful outcomes have resulted.
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Some of the programs that have been established and maintained for the last five years are: environmental education programs for most schools in the Sarapiquí watershed (more than 150 in total), and the Environmental Day Activities and Water Day Parade. CRENASA is currently consolidating the first-ever recycling program in Sarapiquí.

LA SELVA–SAN JUAN BIOLOGICAL CORRIDOR
In 2001, a group of 15 local, national and international conservation organizations, supported by the Mesoamerican Biological Corridor, created a strategic alliance called the La Selva–San Juan Biological Corridor. Since then, these organizations, including TRC, have been working to consolidate a protected area, Maquenque, located in the northern area of Costa Rica. The goal is to create an unbroken connection between the remaining forest areas between La Selva and the Maquenque area. By protecting this area, we are ensuring the protection of the Great Green Macaw (Ara ambigua), the wild almond (Dypterix panamensis), the manati (Trichechus manacus) and the jaguar (Panthera onca), as well as 6,000 species of vascular plants, 515 bird species, 139 mammal species, 135 reptile species and 80 amphibian species.

The La Selva–San Juan Corridor works to connect the remaining forests between the Central Mountain Range, La Selva Biological Station, Barra del Colorado Nacional Wildlife Refuge, and Tortuguero National Park, all in Costa Rica, with the Indio-Maíz, Punta Gorda and Cerro Silva Biological Reserves in Nicaragua.
In addition, the Corridor implemented a series of programs in order to incorporate local community efforts in these conservation programs.

For more information please visit www.lapaverde.or.cr

PRIVATE RESERVE NETWORK
With more than 100 members, the Private Reserve Network links forest owners interested in preserving their land and simultaneously profiting from their land without challenging or harming its biodiversity. The Private Reserve Network offers economic remuneration for these participating land owners. TRC has been an active member since 2001.