Bio-diversity

Tapant National Park is located in the La Amistad conservation area - Pac fico, in conjunction with the massif of death, to the northeast of the Cordillera de Talamanca. Covers the cantons of El Guarco de Cartago, Jim nez and OS. Tapant National Park is very visited by birders, since it has a m s 260 bird species recorded, including quetzals, hawks, colibr, and ndolas RFMOs. The Park in conjunction with other areas Silvestres Protegidas aleda as the Chirrip National Park, the Los Santos forest reserve and the reserve Ind gena Chirrip, constitute an immense corridor biol magic. The area of the jungle of Pejibaye at Jim n cant nez, of the province of Cartago is part of that corridor and maintains a Medes h m s. pa s diverse and picturesque tropical forests The Association for the conservation and sustainable development of the Copal protects 190 hectares forest belonging to the jungle of Pejibaye and hence is part of corridor biol gico also. M s of 380 species of birds have been identified in this forest, this makes it in an OS for bird watchers and one of the best observation sites for n, seg n Ornit Association logos. The Association for the conservation and sustainable development of the Copal born inter s of 17 friends and neighbors, to maintain and conserve the area of forest that is located in the buffer zone of the la Amistad International Park, they have 200 hectares of land, which owns 88% of native forest little intervened. The property was acquired through a pr loan to a State-owned bank. In the 2000 the Association present a project to the program of small donations from the Fund for the global environment (PPD-GEF), for the construction n and equipment of a hostel r plastic, and the sustainable use of trails ecol magical in an area of 163 searched. The project was approved in the amount of $20,000, the Association Reali a great effort by the voluntary contribution of labour as well as also of some materials for the n of the hostel building. They counted with the support of the University of Costa Rica (UCR) on topics of research n, transportation and volunteer students and with the support of the youth challenge group for the opening of the 5 km., trails. In the 2002, is subject to program an application for magnification n by $10,000 in order to correct some deficiencies in the service analyzed by a tourism operator, est s were performed successfully. In the 2003 Association of conservation and sustainable development of the Copal submits a new application to PPD-GEF for the construction ns kitchen and dining room as a structure other than the place where they are located the rooms, in order to promote lower noise for visitors, as well as also increase the amount of visitors who meet with power services, for tourists making tours of a d a. The total invested by the PPD-GEF with the two initiatives is $48.433 and co-financing of US $60.704 (or$ 19.571) achievement by the Organization and other contributions by $41.133. The Association has received great support from institutions academic institutions such as universities and colleges, to strengthen the development of scientific research contest, support the strengthening of capabilities and others, progress in terms of creation n, magnification n and improvement of the infrastructure has been thanks to the support of the PPD and the GEF and reinversi n of the profits generated with the rendering of the services. However, despite the great effort, yet to they suffer from the conditions necessary to provide services of higher quality, which are demanded by national and foreign tourists, and m serious n s are aside from the law established by the Costa Rican Institute of tourism (ICT) for operation n companies tur statistics at the national level. In this context the Copal, urges small program as donations for the Fund for the global environment (PPD-GEF), a new support to continue and promote the sustainable development of the community through the implementation of improving the initiative tour feature involving social, environmental sustainability and econ mica. This project seeks to: make environmental sustainability actions that allow the proper handling of the tur features driven by the Association activities generating less impact in the approaching runner biol magical areas. On the other hand, it is proposed also construction infrastructure tur n stretch (two caba as) to improve the quality of tourism services provided by the Organization, as well as also to access to the n tur acoustic certification and certification requested by the Costa Rican Institute of tourism, environmental sustainability n which allow to become a hostel in CRT with certification Tur n feature in the form of bed and breakfast.

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