The Nature Conservancy’s Rainforest Conservation Highlights

-- Saving the Last Great Rainforests Around the World



# The Nature Conservancy is currently working with its partners to protect tropical and temperate rainforests in 23 countries in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.

# During a five-week expedition into the remote Indonesian rainforests on the island of Borneo, Nature Conservancy scientists discovered several new species, including a “monster cockroach” that is believed to be the largest species of roach in the world.

# In the Amazon, the Conservancy and its Brazilian partner organizations are protecting the Serra do Divisor National Park by building the local community’s ability to implement and conduct natural resource management, environmental research and ecotourism.

# In 1975, The Nature Conservancy helped Costa Rica create the 100,000-acre Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula. Today, The Nature Conservancy is part of a coalition to create a 10,000-acre conservation corridor between Corcovado and Piedras Blancas National Parks.

# The Nature Conservancy is backing one of the most ambitious conservation efforts ever undertaken: ensuring a healthy future for 21 million acres of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest — a land of mist-shrouded valleys and glacier-cut fjords, old-growth forests, rich salmon streams and the rare spirit bear.

# The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre® program is currently working to conserve the vital rainforest habitat of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Through Adopt an Acre, Nature Conservancy members have already helped to protect more than 600,000 acres of critical rainforest habitat around the globe.



How We Work



The Osa Campaign

The global importance of the Osa Peninsula has led The Nature Conservancy, Conservation International, the Costa Rica-USA Foundation, and the Government of Costa Rica to come together in the Osa Campaign, a unique conservation and fundraising effort.