Tropical Rainforests are the world’s largest sources of biodiversity and CO2 absorption. Protect our tropical rainforests from deforestation by becoming a Rainforest Guardian.

"I became a Rainforest Guardian because I wanted to leave something for my kids."

CREA's Program to Save Rainforests

In 2006 CREA, a U.S. non profit organization, stepped in when a 1000 acre forest in Panama was about to be sold to cattle ranchers. CREA found a donor to buy this forest in order to protect its abundant forest, water reserves and biodiversity. In 2007 CREA incorporated this forest as a nationally registered private nature reserve called COCOBOLO NATURE RESERVE.

In order to maintain and protect this reserve CREA is reaching out. We invite you to become a Rainforest Guardian of this reserve and to help us protect it from illegal hunting, logging and burning. You can become a Rainforest Guardian of this rainforest for a minimum donation of $49 for one year.

Due to the help of people like you we have been able to protect important top predators of the reserve such as pumas, jaguars and ocelots. Cocobolo Nature Reserve is now one of the foremost sites in the region harboring large populations of the large bird the Great Curassow. Your donations helped us undertake a plant inventory in 2009, and in so doing we found two very endangered species of plants that grow nowhere else but this area of central Panama. Their habitat is shrinking quickly around the reserve, making the preservation of Cocobolo Nature Reserve even more important.

To continue in our quest to preserve these animals and plants we need your help. Please contribute today.

When you become a Rainforest Guardian of 1 acre of the Cocobolo Rainforests, you...

• protect hundreds of species of plants and animals, many rare or endangered
• preserve our precious natural heritage from being burned or illegally hunted
• support CREA in its farmer training program

When you become a Rainforest Guardian you receive

• a beautiful certificate with your name and a description of your rainforest
• membership into the online gallery of rainforest guardians (publishing is optional)
• a newsletter updating you about the Cocobolo Nature Reserve rainforests

You can help by becoming a Rainforest Guardian today

CREA is a registered US non profit EIN:34-1997310