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Print ArticleUpdated: November 11th, 2009 02:21 PM GMT-05:00
Neenah Paper Announces Partnership To Help Reforest Conservation Property
Neenah Paper partnered with Friends of the Osa and the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin to help reforest a conservation property in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world.
With Neenah’s support and contributions, the reforestation project will remove carbon from the atmosphere, protect and restore viable plant and animal habitats, create a new habitat for endangered wildlife and restore land degraded by deforestation.
“Partnering with Friends of the Osa and the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin is exciting because together we will have a direct impact not only on the Costa Rican rainforest, but on some of the world’s threatened and endangered species,” said Rodger Ferguson, director of environmental services at Neenah Paper.
Added David Clutter, director of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin Wisconservation Corps and Lands Programs, “The Osa Project is another example of how government, foundations and private industry can work together to be good stewards of the land, water and wildlife that is quickly vanishing.”
The conservation property, an extensive 1,500 acres in the southeastern portion of the Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve, is located in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. It harbors the last remaining old growth rainforest on the western flank of Central America and is one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world. Sandwiched between encroaching development and deforested land, the Osa Peninsula is widely acknowledged as a global conservation priority by conservation organizations such as the Nature Conservancy and Conservation International.
With Neenah’s support and contributions, the reforestation project will remove carbon from the atmosphere, protect and restore viable plant and animal habitats, create a new habitat for endangered wildlife and restore land degraded by deforestation.
“Partnering with Friends of the Osa and the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin is exciting because together we will have a direct impact not only on the Costa Rican rainforest, but on some of the world’s threatened and endangered species,” said Rodger Ferguson, director of environmental services at Neenah Paper.
Added David Clutter, director of the Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin Wisconservation Corps and Lands Programs, “The Osa Project is another example of how government, foundations and private industry can work together to be good stewards of the land, water and wildlife that is quickly vanishing.”
The conservation property, an extensive 1,500 acres in the southeastern portion of the Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve, is located in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. It harbors the last remaining old growth rainforest on the western flank of Central America and is one of the most biologically diverse regions in the world. Sandwiched between encroaching development and deforested land, the Osa Peninsula is widely acknowledged as a global conservation priority by conservation organizations such as the Nature Conservancy and Conservation International.