Mission
SACRO Foundation a non-profit private organization whose main objectives are the conservation, protection and investigation of the “orchidacea family” and its habitats, with special attention to species native to Costa Rica.
Welcome
SACRO (SAve Costa Rican Orchids) a private non-profit organization created to assist in the conservation of orchids in Costa Rica, to promote leadership and awareness to demonstrate that the most effective means of conservation is through education.
Costa Rica
In a small region of only 51,100 square kilometers is found 6% of the World’s biodiversity. Millions of years of evolution have shown this territory to be ideal for the development of the most diverse forms of life. Located north of the Equator, in the southern extreme of Central America, it forms part of the neotropics… Costa Rica.
Because of its outstanding diversity and incredible biological richness, Costa Rica has become a true Mecca for ecological tourists, naturalists, biological investigators and «orchideologists», especially those with a driving desire to see and study its more than 1200 species of orchids, these divided into some 175 genera. This wondrous concentration of orchid beauty makes this country renown throughout the World for having one of the greatest natural orchid densities.
who we are
Vision
SACRO Foundation’s goals include the conservation and protection of habitats, natural or man-made, in which orchids grow or are cultivated. The Foundation also seeks to conserve and protect those geographic areas, which, due to their microclimates or their ecology, are especially apt for the conservation and protection of orchids.
Objectives
SACRO places special emphasis on education in order to raise the level of awareness, in children and adults, of the importance of conservation.
SACRO strives to teach the necessary equilibrium between human development and the conservation of the environment.
SACRO seeks to divulge, in all possible mediums, those methods and practices required for the conservation, propagation and investigation of orchids
Board of Directors
It will be governed by a Board of Directors made up of five Directors.
Ileana Terán
President
Lic. Ricardo Lankester
Vice - President
Ing. Fernando F. Terán
Rep. Curridabat-County
Dr. Miguel A. González
Rep. GovernmentSocial Impact
Broaden knowledge and learning skills to strengthen the community’s social and cultural development.
ACHIEVEMENTS
Education enables young people to become agents of change in their own lives, their communities and the national reality. Our desire is to plant in the minds of the youth the seed of knowledge. They will be the best disseminators of information, the force that can change the world.
Education is true to SACRO founding philosophy, SACRO involvement will serve to increase awareness, and to intensify the search for a new development model.
These important projects are yours, feel the pride brought on by collaborating in the conservation of this marvelous world… the world of orchids!
Our Projects
Our on- going projects have allowed us to generate very positive changes by means of relative simple but well articulated direct actions. Confident in the knowledge that the seeds we planted will bear fruits in this beautiful and fertile country, Costa Rica.
LET´S RESCUE COSTA RICA NATIONAL FLOWER
Our program has become a symbol of conservation, a solution . . .
LET´S RESCUE COSTA RICA NATIONAL FLOWER
Our program has become a symbol of conservation, a solution to the eminent extinction of this very special orchid specie, the Guarianthe skinneri (Guaria morada).
Un Aula en el Bosque Project
Un Aula en el Bosque Project (A Classroom in the . . .
Un Aula en el Bosque Project
Un Aula en el Bosque Project (A Classroom in the Forest, by its name in Spanish) has promoted access to a healthy life style in harmony with nature. This helps our students to increase their expectations to reach a better quality of life for them and their families.
REGIONAL ORCHID GARDENS
Interactive projects of SACRO with local communities.
These in-situ conservation centers, will benefit tourism and will help researchers to study orchids in their own habitats.
Hacienda La Laguna Garden Tour
Hacienda La Laguna is one of the oldest coffee plantations . . .
Hacienda La Laguna Garden Tour
Hacienda La Laguna is one of the oldest coffee plantations in the country, famous for the quality of its coffee for export, J & S La Laguna, since 1856.
Hacienda La Laguna is also well known for the gardens and home of Ileana Terán, an enthusiastic orchid grower, conservationist, and founder of SACRO Foundation
In her garden, she cultivates and propagates many costarican species and uses orchids as part of the landscape, where it is common to see beautiful sprays of oncidiums hanging from the trees and gorgeous terrestrial sobralias.
This wonderful garden resembles a tropical jungle where narrow paths and trails guide the visitors through all sort of ferns, philodendrums, anthuriums, bromeliads… There are national species as well as orchid hybrids in bloom.
URBAN HAPPINESS
Como parte de nuestro compromiso con el bienestar de la . . .
URBAN HAPPINESS
Como parte de nuestro compromiso con el bienestar de la comunidad, Urban Happines busca suministrar apoyo a los jóvenes líderes en diferentes campos del saber y que tienen una clara vocación de servicio, orientada a la conservación de la naturaleza y al progreso social de sus comunidades.
Requerimos urgentemente formas de desarrollo que integren el bienestar humano, ciudades más amigables y motivar a los ciudadanos a contribuir con un desarrollo responsable con el medio ambiente.