[3] It is located in the Talamanca-Caribe biological corridor that covers about 36,000 hectares in the canton of Talamanca, Limón Province.

The Bribri have also created a breeding program for green iguanas, which are raised for meat and released into the forest.

However, ITCO engineers were unable to distinguish cocoa farms (many owned by non-indigenous people) from virgin forest in the aerial photographs they used to draw the boundaries.

The Kéköldi Association petitioned the government to reduce the size of the reserve to 2023 hectares, since CONAI lacked the funds to purchase the remaining farms.

The Ministry of the Interior rejected the petition, citing the Indigenous Law of 1977 that prohibits reducing the size of reserves.

[8] The Kéköldi Association's iguana program is an experiment in semi-domestication, funded by the Costa Rican Ministry of Natural Resources, Energy and Mines, the government of Norway (through IUCN), and Asociacion ANAI.

[9] To cut down any trees in the reserve, permission is needed from the Association, as well as from the Costa Rican Forestry Department (if the goal is to sell the wood commercially).