The Maderas Rainforest Conservancy is a nonprofit organization which was established to promote the conservation, protection, and management of Mesoamerican forests and animal and plant biodiversity through education, reforestation, preservation, and by working with local communities, and national and international institutions and universities.
Increases in real estate sales, irresponsible tourism, live animal capture for the pet trade, and agricultural deforestation have left the species and ecosystems of Mesoamerican forests extremely vulnerable.
[2] The Maderas Rainforest Conservancy states its mission to be threefold: According to the conservancy, first and foremost, the mission is to protect the ecosystems of Mesoamerican forests by purchasing and managing forested and deforested lands in strategic locations, initially in Costa Rica and Nicaragua.
Secondly, the conservancy runs field schools in two locations (one in Nicaragua, the other in Costa Rica) where undergraduate and graduate students can take classes based on the ecosystems of these areas.
It is the hope that these students turn this education into increased awareness of the conservation issues facing both these forests and vulnerable habitats everywhere in the world.
This will enable the Maderas Rainforest Conservancy to strategically acquire deforested land for a reforestation project of primate corridors.