Cocos Island Costa Rica

La Nacion, Costa Rica´s most important newspaper has published over 50 or more articles until now, about Cocos Island. This newspaper has a very interesting archive in their instalations where anyone can have access  to all this valuable information.

NATGEO visited Cocos Island in Costa Rica during September and October 2009 to study its wild life on the island and its submarine life. The scientifics say that never saw such a high shark  poblation density, and think this may be the highest thet ever witnessed before.

They assume that the reasson for these large schools of fishes in general, happen to be because of the marine richness and unbelievable biodiversity in Cocos Island, and that  the better proof of it is the amazing quantity and size of fishes all around.

National Geographic had the time too to witness and film the so called pouching or better known as shark killings, just for their fins, practiced the most by foreign ships and many chinnese guys.

Though MARVIVA and the Guardcoast of Costa Rica are doing their best, our national security and other ONG have not enough personnal and resources to keep a 24 hours watch around Cocos Island.

Jacques Cousteau,our mentor and to whom we dedicated our organization and web site

Newly born (Jan 18 th. 2009)  we started this organization compromising ourselves  ”..to stand for the rights of the future generations..” according to Jacques Cousteau´s  principles of  life preservation and our own premises.

We take our most  emblematic national park and world heritage site, Cocos Island , as a platform and symbol  from where we make effective our plans towards all of our country´s environmental defense and preservation tactics as shown at this link: OUR ENVIRONMENTAL PLANS (Click on Here)

Owned by costaricans, we are aimed to serve our country and to cooperate with the planet´s preservation as a daily updated, efficient and  effective tool for research, information, education and social debate.

Capt. Paul Watson

We have been also inspired by the environmental hero of  the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (S.S.C.S), captain Paul Watson and his team.We are proud to share many of the principles by which we work knowing that people and organizations like his are leading  our cause..it gives us more courage and motivation to join this great work of saving lives…

And these are the premises of  our Mission & Vision commitment:

To serve  :

1. ..as an Informative,Educational and Research Center of Communications for all those involved in the preservation of this planet by all means.

2. ..as an open and free site of Reports & News for all those who willingy want to participate sharing their knowledge  with others and exchanging information of vital importance for the whole planet.

3. ..as a commited web tool for spreading the main principles for which it was created, fomenting debate as a social pressure vehicule in order to convince and gain  the world authorities interest and support for the preservation of nature and the endangered species involved.

4. ..as a daily updated site ready to expose every crime against nature and living beings within, fighting back all corruption motive until God, the law and the nation allow us.

Finally, but not less important…we have added in the last months a new target to our mission statement, maybe the most important of all, which is the promise to restablish  The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society operations in Costa Rica.

The Vision

“…education and awareness as means to inspire people to love and protect our planet, for the benefit of  the future generations…”      M.Garrido

by Marco Garrido

COSTA RICA