Team Cerro Nara - Earth Stewardship
Team Cerro Nara is based in Costa Rica and California. We are an ecological conservation and preservation organization dedicated to comprehensive work regenerating the environment through many programs and projects.
Our protection, conservation, and preservation projects are multidisciplinary, ranging from active local park ranging, forest architecture through Analog Forestry, ecological activism, Permaculture, and optionally researching wildlife. With our grounds on Cerro Nara mountain, we receive volunteers and teach individuals how to become better earth stewards. We are experiencing our main rollout of these programs and projects this year, and are steadily gaining momentum.
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In 2022 we adopted a massive project on Cerro Nara mountain from Bob Buckter, a longtime rainforest conservationist, who has been preserving Costa Rican land habitats for 30 years. Our property, located near Manuel Antonio Costa Rica, is approximately 1000 acres. This is our home base. At an 800 meters' elevation in a habitat overlap known as an ecotone, it is teeming with life in a wide range of biodiversity. We are told some species still have yet to be discovered here since most of the endemic species of Costa Rica make Cerro Nara their home. Our lands have two active local caretakers, and it has been that way for about 25 years already.
We are currently in charge of park ranging over 5000 acres of the Pro Nara association's land. Pro Nara is a local conservation association founded over a decade ago to organize likeminded individuals in the area. The full protected zone of Cerro Nara is just under 12,000 acres of land, to which we are working as closely as possible alongside the government of Costa Rica to protect.
The operational grounds of Team Cerro Nara can house around 12 volunteers with some private living quarters, dorm area, kitchen, washer/dryer, refrigerator, and dining area. We are expanding dwelling spaces with a new dorm area and two more private quarters apart from the main building. New common areas are permitted and ready to be built along with observational research locations and plant/tree nurseries. We have off-grid solar and hydro-electric systems capable of powering everything year round. Locally, our partners in the Pro Nara Association are scheduled to complete a volunteer and wildlife research center, capable of housing 20 people on the south side of the mountain. Together, we will be fulfilling our mission in solidarity.
The plans we have in 2024-2029 are to teach up to 100 individuals on our land stewardship programs, build a journalism department, support the missions of key local environmental activists, further regenerate and enhance the protected zone with ecological developments, practice and collaborate more with analog forestry, and eventually expand to protect the entire coast to coast wildlife corridor with privatized park ranging and land regeneration projects.
We are currently working on implementing a new forest architectural plan that increases the amount of available food for wildlife, planting over 1500 trees, to which we have already planted several hundred. The goal is to have enough nutrition to support one troop of monkeys near our operational grounds year round. There are several building projects to help us take on an active community, to which we are seeking to make it an international Analog Forestry education center. Each year during summer time, we plan to bulk up our park ranging program to thwart poachers from damaging wildlife. We already protect the spring waters and lands; some of our stewards have worked alongside us for over 20 years, but we need your help! Every volunteer, collaborator, and bit of capital helps further us towards our goals.
We coordinate with local organizations involved in land and community projects and exchange hands of help with local indigenous peoples. Our constituency is local and international. Anyone who is willing to take up the mantle of earth stewardship along with our team is welcome to collaborate, regardless previous grievances on mother nature. We believe that everyone, no matter the actions or lack there of in the past, deserves an opportunity to experience making a real difference towards regenerating and strengthening our biodiversity, community, and each other.
Donations here will go to our general fund for projects, such as our Nature and poacher observation cameras and infrastructure, our park rangers and supporting programs, the local environmental activists we work with, and some for travel to important governmental and community meetings.
Our mission is to foster ecological conservation, support sustainable agriculture, and promote permaculture practices. By training individuals and groups in these areas, we aim to expand the footprint of healthy and holistic environmental stewardship across the globe.
We envision a world where communities are actively engaged in the preservation of their natural environments, where biodiversity thrives, and sustainable practices are the norm, not the exception.
As global pollution rates continue to fluctuate and increase, there are many natural systems, and carbon sequestration habitats that continue to be reduced and destroyed due to the advance and encroachment of human civilization. Some of these systems are responsible for natural cloud seeding and healthy climate regulation. There is not enough support from government or private organizations to protect these spaces.
Many organizations lack proper efficacy and do not have comprehensive strategies. They often times do not fully commit to the principles that define their success, and thus trick investors and donors into supporting them, while they pretend to do most, if not all of the work they claim. This translates into high administrative costs, with little to no output on their desired mission(s).
Examples of this are in the planting of trees. Most large scale tree planting ventures have extremely high attrition, up and over 90% fatalities of their plantation. Imagine if you had a tree named for your contributions, or in honor of someone, and said organization allowed it to not only die, but pretended as if it still was alive and growing. Imagine if an organization said they would create impact in a given area, and yet, years down the line, you find out they just took your capital, paid their staff, and then not only failed to follow through on their goals, but never intended to start anything in the first place. This is common-place around the world for nonprofit organizations, and other humanitarian activity. Even when audited, some organizations are able to pretend that they are fulfilling their objectives, and pass tests to extract more money meant for important ecological restoration efforts, and humanitarian operations.
We solve these issues by comprehensive forest architecture with Analog Forestry, alike to the popular syntropic agriculture, except with more depth in permaculture. Each plan is made through several phases and is reassessed in a few years time, or more consistently.
Our park ranging programs provide the much needed protection for the land ecosystems. Each ranger is provided equipment and a team to prevent poaching of flora and fauna that are necessary for regenerative biodiversity. This is done privately where governments fail to navigate. Each year, strategic plans and designated dates are set for maximizing our affect.
Within the local communities, we provide volunteer help to execute these plans both in restoring habitats, and preventing habitat destruction. We are in solidarity with each group of the larger community, weather that be local people in the countryside, or people seeking to start projects in other areas. We do not discriminate.
We allow full transparency in these endeavors, and accept visitations from those who share a concern about efficacy. With carful documentation, and real numbers representing real impact on trees planted, communities affected, and environmental campaigns made. We actually do what we are saying we do, if not more, unlike many fake organizations posing to do the same or similar things.
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