Environment MarViva helps conserve Costa Rica’s marine protected areas

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Published on Thursday, 09 February 2012 17:04

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(Prensa.com). In order to ensure sustainable financial support to the Government of Costa Rica for marine control and surveillance tasks, the MarViva Foundation and Aldesa Trusts, S.A. signed a contract on Monday, December 5, that creates a $2 million administration trust to support the management and conservation of Costa Rica’s Marine Protected Areas.

The funds earned from the investment will be allocated to the maintenance and future replacement of a patrol vessel that the MarViva Foundation will donate to the National Coast Guard Service and to the protection of the marine areas around Cocos Island, with the National Conservation Area System (SINAC) as the major beneficiary of the trust.

Since 2002, MarViva has supported the Government of Costa Rica through the execution of a Control and Surveillance Program to ensure compliance with environmental laws in critical marine areas of the Costa Rican Pacific, such as Cocos Island National Park and the Osa Peninsula.

“The strategy of establishing a trust is based on the need to ensure the present and future availability of resources for effectively protecting the marine areas of great economic and ecological relevance to the nation,” explained MarViva director Jorge Jiménez.

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