The Forever Costa Rica (FCR) Program is a public-private partnership whose mission is to make Costa Rica one of the first developing countries to meet the goals of the Programme of Work on Protected Areas of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), thereby consolidating an ecologically representative, effectively managed system of protected areas that are adapted to the effects of climate change and have sustainable sources of funding.
The Peace for Nature initiative, developed while Oscar Arias was in office, gave way to the idea of setting up a trust fund that would make all efforts to sustain Costa Rica’s biodiversity sustainable. The Linden Trust for Conservation, the Moore Foundation and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) joined hands to review the lessons learned from the experience of environmental funds around the world and to launch a global fundraising campaign to build the trust fund.
