Southern Costa Rica is home to two important conservation sites in Central America: the Osa Peninsula and La Amistad National Park. The Osa Peninsula is one of the planet's greatest natural treasures, containing half of Costa Rica's 500,000 species. With old-growth rainforests, wetlands, and unique wildlife such as jaguars and scarlet macaws, it is a model for ecotourism and biodiversity conservation. La Amistad National Park, protected within the Talamanca mountain range, encompasses an extraordinary breadth of ecosystems and forms the most intact and youngest geological land bridge linking North and South America.

Despite the area's importance, it faces threats from rapid climate change, agriculture expansion, land degradation, and illegal extraction. The project proposes a socially- and technologically-based program to build local support networks to protect habitat, increase connectivity through restoration, and eliminate illegal resource extraction. This approach encourages the active participation of local communities, youths, eco-lodges, NGOs, and research institutions to effect on-the-ground change. If successful, this model approach can be replicated in other tropical regions with elevation gain worldwide.

The aim is to make their production economically and ecologically sustainable and resilient in the face of climate change. To ensure the success of the project, the project will be conducting first-rate monitoring and science. This will involve tracking changes in soils, forest cover, animal movements, and social and economic shifts.