Our Story

At the end of the 60s it was common to see how forest spaces were cut down in Costa Rica and huge pastures were formed, with large herds of cattle, this situation was extended until the late 80s. In 1987 the country would reach a forest cover of 21%, the lowest recorded in all history.

At that time our family had a sawmill in the north of the country and they sold the wood extracted from farms they were buying, to later dedicate them to livestock, simply sell them or conserve them with forest, some of these farms are now protected within the National Shelter Maquenque Mixed Wildlife and have payment for environmental services.

These properties, at some point were victims of logging, possibly have been the hunting and many other evils that we see also throughout the country, so, today our main objective is to reverse and combat, through tourism sustainable the ecological and social problems present within the refuge of life.

The Maquenque Nature Reserve project consists of 2 properties within the Maquenque National Mixed Wildlife Refuge, both with wetlands with lots of wildlife, one property we call Jaguar House and the other Maquenque Nature Reserve.

"Our dream is to make a Biological Station on the Jaguar House property, which allows daily monitoring of what happens in the border forest next to the San Juan river and 300,000 hectares of the Maio Indian Biological Reserve.”