Iguana Verde Foundation

At the Tree House Lodge property, you can visit the Green Iguana Foundation and take the Iguana Conservation Tour.

Iguana Verde, a Dutch initiative, is a non-profit organization, carried out with the support of donors.

"Iguanaverde" is intended to achieve changes through the dissemination of information and the raising of iguanas to re-establish a natural reserve. The goal of the foundation is to raise a significant number of green iguanas in a natural habitat. It also intends to inform local people about the situation threatening the life of the green iguana

This project was founded with the cooperation of the "Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica" and the "University and research Centre Wageningen" in Holland. The Foundation Iguanaverde is registered in Holland and is a non profit organization.

The Iguana Conservation Tour has certain rules you might want to know when you join it:

• Don't throw garbage.
• No smoking.
• Keep the volume down.
• Don't extract plants or wildlife animals.
• Forbidden to hunt iguanas.
• The Tree House Lodge doesn't comercialize species or flora and fauna products that are ilegal by law.

When you make tour reservations or arrangements thru the Tree House Lodge, you contribute with the Green Iguana Foundation, dedicated to the preservation of the Green Iguana, an specie in danger of extinction. And you get a free Iguana Conservation Tour, given every week on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Click here to learn more about this program >

 

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Facts

Iguanaverde is intended as a source of information about the situation of the Green Iguana in the Southern Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica; where survival of the iguana is threatened by the presence of unscrupulous individuals as well as traditional hunters and slow climatologic changes.

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