Join Justice for Nature to protect Santa Elena Bay whales. Adopt a whale, support monitoring, and help preserve critical breeding grounds in Costa Rica.
In April 2021, we launched the Green Life project in Costa Rica and the first 72 hectares of rainforest on the border with Tapanti National Park, which is part of the La Amistad biosphere reserve.
By getting involved in adopting a whale, you will help monitor marine mammals in the Santa Elena Bay in Costa Rica and thus contribute to the protection of the humpback whale breeding zone from industrial exploitation. By adopting a whale, you will become an important ambassador for them. In two humpback whale migration seasons, we need to make 50 cruises to bring the necessary evidence of their occurrence, but also their behavior and reproduction. All this data is processed for research, whale bay conservation and educational purposes.
Adopting a whale costs 200 Euro per calendar year and will cover one monitoring cruise.
How to do it?
What to do to become an Ambassador and get the beautiful AMBASSADOR OF WHALES certificate?
What will you get?
Give the gift of Whale Ambassadorship to your loved ones!
Threats to Santa Elena Bay whales
Santa Elena Bay has been threatened for more than 20 years by efforts to build a giant cargo seaport that would destroy the breeding grounds of long-finned pilot whales.
This industrial project is called the "Dry Channel" and would relieve shipping through the Panama Canal. In Costa Rica, it is one of five sites that have been proposed for this project, but in Mexico (2 sites), Nicaragua and Colombia, there is no threat of destroying the whales' reproductive bay.
In 2019, this project has already been stopped once and not approved in the Costa Rican parliament, but a group of lobbyists led by the current president continue to seek investors for this project. There are still two and a half years of critical time ahead of us when the current president will be in power!
