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Costa Rica has spent decades protecting its forests, and now has high-integrity removal credits available for purchase.
Leading businesses are already funding these large-scale, government-backed programs that protect forests and unlock economic opportunity for communities across the country. Hear directly from the people whose lives are already changing and find out how you can take the next step towards real impact for forests, people and nature:
Community Voices and stories from Costa Rica's Forest Protection Program
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Spotlight: Proven in Forests.
Now Protecting Mangroves.
Costa Rica's forest protection program has spent nearly three decades proving that paying communities to protect forests works, helping national forest cover recover to roughly half the country's territory. That track record is exactly why the same results-based model, tested and trusted in forests, is now being extended into mangroves for the first time.
It is a positive feedback loop in action: proven impact in one ecosystem builds the confidence and infrastructure to reinvest in the next, driving resilience and results further, for climate, people, and nature.
On Isla Chira, Elizabeth Medina and the Mixta Montero Fishermen's Association collect mollusk seed, measure and weigh it, and place it in protected nursery plots where no one may extract until it has had time to reproduce. Quarterly incentive payments now support that work directly. "The mangrove for us is life, it is sustenance, it is the habitat where the mollusk is, where our food comes from," she says.
Further down the Gulf of Nicoya, Gabriela Murillo of the Puerto Jesús mollusk association puts the connection to forests plainly: "It is really similar to the forests, but with the only condition that mangroves give us to survive, to maintain a house, to support our children." Until this program, payment for environmental services had only ever reached dry-land forests. Now the same reinvestment reaching Costa Rica's dry-land forests can now reach the people who depend on its mangroves too.