News update: Costa Rica/ Wild Climax Refuge!

FuckForForest have bought about 60 hectares with forest in Costa Rica that now is protected area. The exact nr and figures are we still waiting for form our layer in Costa Rica. This protected area is now named: Wild Climax Refuge. About 10 % of this is land that is destroyed by farmers and need to get replanted. The rest of the land is intact forest that is untouched by humans.

FFF bought 3 peaces of land:

25.10.06..... FFF buy 1 area of forest...... 67 700 NOK about 13234$ or 8499€
25.10.06.....................2 part......................67 700 NOK about 13234$ or 8499€
07.11.06.....................3 part......................56 600 NOK about 11073$ or 7107€

21.03.07..... For expensive connected to buying the land (layers) and FFF visit in Costa Rica to Arbofilias station...................9 000 NOK about 1760$ or 1130€

Total sent: 201000 NOK around 39303 $ or 25246€

FFF are going to by more land in Costa Rica in the close future and also start to re plant the area of land that need to get re-planted. We hope to be able to start the re-forestation project in the coming month. We are working with the local organization there to develop an idée how to do this now.

The problem on Costa Rica is that farmers have spited up the big areas of forest that once was there and it is just small islands with natural forest left. So it do not matter just to buy this islands and make it protected. The animals and plants will die there any way, it will just get inbreeds and the life will get degenerated fast. So to protect the forest you also need to connect all this small islands with forest again.

Another problem in Costa Rica is the rich and filthy people that go there and invest. Close to the area Wild Climax Refuge a rich American bought 300 hectare with forest and building a road right trough the forest to build a luxury house. Not allowed in Costa Rica to destroy natural forest but what to do when rich people control the world… So for people in Costa Rica please stand up for your forest rights to be there, you have legal rights to fight this rich people! We will investigate more in this... The prices of land is also going up be course of this, so for small organizations that like to protect forest and do not have milions to spend it got much harder.

The 3 problems in Costa Rica are the fake re-planting projects that are going on there. On the paper Costa Rica is a green and healthy country and work hard to keep the tropical forest. A lot of people and organizations send money to Costa Rica to help with the reforestation that is happening there. But what is happening… In Costa Rica a plantation with teak is a reforestation. But this plant does not belong in the eco system and no animals and plants from Costa Rica can live there.

FuckForForest (Pem, Ymmor &Leona) was in Costa Rica winter 2007 to get the legal papers ready and to visit the local organization Arbofilia to learn more about the situation there and how we can help. We also visited the area of forest that FFF have protected guided by a sweet boy that gowned up in the area. We made a lot of interviews with the leader of Arbofilia that we also will putt out soon. Of course we also made Sexy photos and videos from us visiting the beautiful forest there.