Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund

Founded in spirit in 1985, and formalized in 1997 as the Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund (GDFCF) with a gift from the Kyoto Prize awarded to Dan Janzen, we have evolved to become the formal non-profit and close working partner to the Costa Rican government's Área de Conservación Guanacaste (ACG) within their national system of protected areas. GDFCF's formal mission statement is to: “Promote the long-term survival of the ecosystems and biodiversity of the Área Silvestre Protegido (wild protected area) of Área de Conservación Guanacaste in Costa Rica through conservation, education, science-based management and biodiversity development.” Although GDFCF is a U.S. based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization, essentially all funds go directly to Costa Rica to support 38+ resident Costa Rican biodiversity field managers/researchers, equipment, land acquisition, and educational programs in ACG.