Cocos Island Costa Rica

C.I.P.I Costa Rica (Research & Information Center for Marine and Wildlife Protection), is the organization that owns and manage this whole movement and web site,which main targets are fighting back  poaching of sharks,turtles, and dolphins in the oceans and preventing deforestation all over  the country as well,together with the preservation of the wildlife at our own Wildlife Sanctuary RAINSONG.Very important achievements have been accomplished in the last 2 years towards these topics as we will explain as follows.

C.I.P.I Costa Rica has worked with its own funds coming from its founder,Ing. Marco Garrido, achieving important goals after 2 years of operation and over $150,000 expended. An operation that was born as a personal project of life, has now grown inmensly in facts and expenses, for which we are looking  strategic alliances,sponsorships or donations that can help us perpetuate the good results we have achieved.

OUR HISTORY

Dedicated to the memory of Jacques Cousteau and his principles, this organization was born as a personal initiative  raised with own funds, to bring a solution to the problematic situation in our country towards local environmental foundations, governmental environmental procedures and overall corruption related to  nature, wildlife and the ocean, derived from the actual status.

Our volunteer Board of Directors is a group of professionals and high executives toward marketing, public  relations, sales, laws and image, assisted by environmental consultors as well.

 The history of all foundations, refuges and environment offices of the government in Costa Rica, have always depended on the governmental policies  toward supervision , surveillance and support, however, the bad management and “lack of money” has turned  our own government in one more enemy of the environment preservation.

We are conformed as an association, independent of the government management but under the environmental laws of Costa Rica, which by the way are pretty good, however disorganization, corruption and personal interests have diminished them to a chaotic  status during the last 20 years, where only individual actions of a few ones have accomplished certain  momentary goals.

OUR PLANS AND TARGETS

 We pretend to set a model of an Environmental Organization based on professional and effective methods of information, education, preservation and protection, showing facts above all regarding the solution of problems.

Many foundations are working in several initiatives towards nature preservation, however, when it comes to real protection they rely on the government and here started the problem 20 years ago.

Our first immediate solution is DEFENSE, accomplished by a national & foreign volunteer force, authorized by the Government and directed by our organization through an Officers Team of  30 persons on charge of the whole volunteers force all over the country. The volunteers can be of all nationalities, most of them students. Law enforced Nature Officers, properly trained and authorized to work together with local authorities will be the first  step to stop poaching, nest hacking ,wild life commerce, pollution and deforestation.

Our medium and long term solutions: Maybe the most important topics of all, is our intention to focus the solutions getting fully involved  with the main social  factors which are probably the origin of the vicious circle.

Continuous improvement solutions toward education and nature awareness, tied up to real job opportunities and training, are probably our best allies to eradicate the problem. The main gap lays not on our lack of honesty and ethics toward the environment, it lays on the lack of involvement of our government towards  the needs of the people, which finally is forced to get hold of any mean of income to provide their families.

Poaching, nest hacking, deforestation, pollution and wildlife illegal commerce are the firsts targets to be eradicated for us. Organic  Agriculture & Farming, Sustainable Tourism, Hand Works, Clothes Printing  and other retail jobs are our solutions to avoid recidivism.

We have design several effective internet media tools to communicate our mission and an Eco-Travel Agency to help us for collecting funds, besides asking for donations, offering our Tour planning  and operation services for all those tourists interested in visiting Costa Rica and cooperate with nature. This is the only one Travel Agency in Costa Rica exclusively working for an environmental cause, for which we need a lot of help with a worldwide advertising campaign as well. Besides our web site, our other related media links are:

1) Face Book  page (51,000 fans)       2) Costa Rica Nature & Adventure Tours     3) Face Book Music Channel

4) You Tube Video Channel  (biography of founder included)

 A 5 years old child,representant of the future generations we stand for…witnesses the miracle of life  together with his family…thanks to Rainsong Wildlife Educational Program.

                     

Only one Travel Agency in the country,dedicated exclusively to an environmental cause

     

 

I. Take a look over here, why the USA Government  is not going a move a finger towards the whales issue or any other issue which may endanger the national income .We just made the calculations related to the whales nightmare:  Japan buys from USA total exportations, over $60 billions a year.

Of American exports to Japan in 2007, the following product categories had the highest values and in total represented   40% of all U.S. shipments into Japan.

1. Complete civilian aircraft … US$4.2 billion (6.6% of Japanese imports from America) – up 18.8% from 2006

2. Other industrial machines … $2.9 billion (4.6%) – up 23%

3. Corn … $2.6 billion (4.2%) – up 33.9%

4. Medicinal equipment … $2.5 billion (4.1%) – down 4.6%

5. Telecommunications equipment … $2 billion (3.3%) – down 0.6%

6. Semiconductors … $1.7 billion (2.8%) – down 15.9%

7. Pharmaceutical preparations … $1.68 billion (2.7%) – down 6.5%

8. Organic chemicals … $1.67 billion (2.7%) – up 17.1%

9. Measuring, testing and control instruments … $1.5 billion (2.4%) – down 10.1%

10. Civilian aircraft parts … $1.5 billion (2.4%) – up 7.6%

Read more at http://import-export.suite101.com/article.cfm/top_japanese_imports_exports_in_2007

II. America’s largest export clients were: Canada (20.1%), Mexico (11.7%), China (5.5%), Japan (5.1%), Germany (4.2%) and the U.K (4.1%) 

Read more: USA´s Trade Buddies http://internationaltrade.suite101.com/article.cfm/japans_top_exports_imports 

III.  Top 10 Countries for Australian Exports(05-6)Australia is the territory around where the Japs hunt whales

1. Japan … US$26.4 billion (up 24.2% from prior year)
2. China … $15.5 billion (up 37.6%)
3. United States … $10.9 billion (up 3.4%)
4. South Korea … $9.9 billion (up 20.3%)
5. United Kingdom …$9.3 billion (up 61.5%)
6. New Zealand … $8.8 billion (down 4.7%)
7. India … $6.3 billion (up 21.1%)
8. Singapore … $5.1 billion (up 24.9%)
9. Taiwan … $4.8 billion (up 20%)
10. Thailand … $3.7 billion (up 8.2%)

Read more at Suite101: Australia’s Trade Buddies: Top Ten Australian Import & Export Free Trade Partners http://free-trade.suite101.com/article.cfm/australias_trade_buddies#ixzz0afj9QM5w

HIGHSEAS & ON-GROUND WAR OF ATTRITION :

This is not a war of nations…this is not a decision call of any politician, spiritual leader or Government agency. This is a war of mankind against its own extinction. Sea Shepherd is leading the right war on high seas, but this is just half  the battle.

The lack of a coordinated on-ground offensive will eternally delay Sea Shepherd´s global results…though highly effective on high seas, Watson´s crew is literally fighting alone. Why?

Well, quite easy…by Watson´s own words: Due to economic reasons! And we showed you above the macro economy and international trading  export figures of the only 2 countries who could change the course of this Whales War…they won´t move a finger toward mankind´s own extinction concerns!

We say that SSCS is literally fighting alone, because we believe that no environmental organization on ground is achieving a hundredth part of what Sea Shepherd is doing on high seas, regarding their battle against whales extinction through massive commercial murdering. Therefore, the imbalance and delay in the global impact of SSCS good results.

Regarding  our comment above, we consulted  Georgienne Bradley , Executive Director of Imaging Foundation and we quoted her words: “…so there are a few orgs that are hard hitting on ground…”,and she adds  “…Earth First and other underground orgs are doing a good job..”

Ok, we agree with her and we reconsider their “contribution drops” to this oceanic war. But according to our research we still think that a few are not enough in this war. Against those giant nations backing up Japan´s operations with their indifference to the “Whales Genocide”…”a few good men”  is not enough for the Whales War!

On the other hand, proposing boycott campaigns against Japan´s products are useless…high costs of fuels ties our hands…do I save a whale or do I save my money buying a japanese car?, may appear to be the main question!  Do I save a dolphin or do I buy a high quality-low price DVD player for my japanese car? Please, do not feel attacked or try to look  for an excuse to justify your buying decisions …I am guilty as well! What we are exactly pointing at, is to our core social and economical problems. Mathematically and with a little bit of sociology theory  we are showing  you all, that we have  lost control over a boycott  to Japan´s products many years ago.

We ask you all guys, that call yourself eco-warriors: what kind of cars are we driving, what kind of audio equipments we have at home, what trademark are our 42″ TVs ???  Now more than ever, our weak economies depend on the nations that are massively murdering these poor creatures…case closed!

How do we get out then, of this vicious circle of useless campaigns, useless good intentions and disoriented on-ground environmental offensives, way behind from the SSCS excellence on high seas strategy? Again, we believe the answer is quite easy..but would  be the implementation of the solution that we propose feasible?

1. Our idea is that we must get together and design as a team, an attrition war on-ground offensive as effective and well thought as SSCS passive-agressive strategy on high seas..! And afterwards, we must arm ourselves  of patience, because it is going to take a while until it starts affecting our enemies profits…again Mr. Watson would be the best example and teacher of perseverance…this new war on ground  we are proposing won´t be the same as the eco fashion “T-Shirts and Stickers War” we are used to, our friends!

We believe that extreme situations demand extreme solutions and extraordinary men to support them! Tell us Mr. Watson, are we wrong?

INSIDE JAPAN EDUCATION CAMPAIGN

As effective as the Steve Irwin and as fast as the Ady Gil vessels, would be the results of a well designed education offensive inside Japan. We ignore if further conversations or actions have been done toward this topic. Until now we are not aware of it!

DID COPENHAGEN REALLY FAIL?

If we keep believing that world leaders are going to support fully the environmental issues, even after showing you just a few exporting and importing figures related to some topics involved in the whole Copenhagen Package …if we still believe that…well yes, Copenhagen failed. And we are not being ungrateful with the few who helped…but again, a few are not enough…

On the other hand, our thesis based on a world coalition of eco-organizations observes Copenhagen as one of the most succesful environmental events ever…it gathered hundreds of millions of people in one voice, and now most of them connected through all this media phenomema called social nets…

Can´t you see the mysterious ways the Universe moves?…it knew the result even before Copenhagen started but it knew also, that it was going to be the most succesful gathering in history of fellow brothers of the cause. Now we only need  just one leader per country to form the United Green Nations , or whatever name we would think is the best.

Think about it…we are far away from failing, because we didn´t…we won at Copenhagen if we capitalize wisely this world unification that we have witnessed!

WE HONESTLY EXPECT THAT OUR CRITICS AND POINTS OF VIEW, WILL  START SOONER THE WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL DEBATE THAT MANKIND NEEDS TO SAVE US FROM AN IMMINENT EXTINCTION !