Alliance for the Monteverde Institute

This summer we are traveling to Costa Rica with our Adventure Girls group to do conservation work and to work with The Monteverde Institute in their efforts at reforestation. We also will be spending time in the community gathering a better understanding of how deforestation has affected the people and their economy.

Reforestation is a way to bring back habitat for millions of species of plants and animals, restore moisture to forest soils which helps maintain cooler temperatures and bring back thriving forests where trees play a critical role in absorbing the greenhouse gases that fuel global warming. Fewer forests mean larger amounts of greenhouse gases entering the atmosphere—and increased speed and severity of global warming.

We hope to raise $10,000, which is enough to gather seeds of key native trees and replant several acres of former cloud forest. While in Costa Rica we will visit the nurseries where the trees are grown and participate in a day of planting seedling trees that other volunteers have already grown and which are ready to plant.

With help like this Costa Rica is regaining its tropical forests at a record pace.
Before 1950: 85% forest
By 1950: 35% forest
Reforestation began in mid-1980s and since 2000 forests have been replanted at a rate of almost 1% per year so it is once again more than 50% forest. No other country has matched this effort.

Please consider a tax-deductible donation to help us support this amazing organization and their global reaching efforts at reforestation.

Please share this with your friends and encourage them to donate as well.

Thank you!
Jorie Bachus, Julia Bachus, Cassie Speyer,  Emily Simms, Emma Drozda, Emma Young, Morgan Gatt and Sami Gempeler