🇨🇷Costa Rica

A nonprofit protects Costa Rica's biodiverse Osa Peninsula, running wildlife corridors, camera traps, and canopy bridges for jaguars and monkeys.

The world's oldest sea turtle conservation group, safeguarding turtles from its historic Tortuguero research station.

Any customer can drop a dead fridge, phone or TV at one of about 150 Gollo stores, and last year that free take-back swelled to 495 tonnes, up 39%.

A Costa Rican NGO built from schoolchildren's fundraising protects the country's largest private cloud forest reserve.

Hammerheads swim a 700-kilometre corridor between Cocos and the Galápagos twice a year; the tags proving it turned an invisible migration into a protected route.