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Cameron Diaz and a group of celebrities recently met up with The Nature Conservancy in Costa Rica to learn about the importance of the world’s rainforests and what can be done to protect these precious ecosystems.

Their expedition was featured in the May 2, 2005 episode of Trippin’, a new series on MTV that brings Hollywood stars to remote, beautiful and environmentally-sensitive corners of the world to raise awareness among young people about the importance of conservation issues.

Actors Cameron Diaz and Jessica Alba, musician Kid Rock and athletes Kelly Slater and Chris Chelios traveled to the remote Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica earlier this year to experience first-hand the incredible diversity of life found in rainforests.

The Nature Conservancy’s Rainforest Conservation Highlights

Saving the Last Great Rainforests Around the World

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© Emily Whitted

• The Nature Conservancy is currently working with its partners to protect tropical and temperate rainforests in 23 countries in North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific.
• During a five-week expedition into the remote Indonesian rainforests on the island of Borneo, Nature Conservancy scientists discovered several new species, including a “monster cockroach” that is believed to be the largest species of roach in the world.
• In the Amazon, the Conservancy and its Brazilian partner organizations are protecting the Serra do Divisor National Park by building the local community’s ability to implement and conduct natural resource management, environmental research and ecotourism.
• In 1975, The Nature Conservancy helped Costa Rica create the 100,000-acre Corcovado National Park on the Osa Peninsula. Today, The Nature Conservancy is part of a coalition to create a 10,000-acre conservation corridor between Corcovado and Piedras Blancas National Parks.
• The Nature Conservancy is backing one of the most ambitious conservation efforts ever undertaken: ensuring a healthy future for 21 million acres of Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest — a land of mist-shrouded valleys and glacier-cut fjords, old-growth forests, rich salmon streams and the rare spirit bear.
• The Nature Conservancy’s Adopt an Acre® program is currently working to conserve the vital rainforest habitat of the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Through Adopt an Acre, Nature Conservancy members have already helped to protect more than 600,000 acres of critical rainforest habitat around the globe.

Learn More About Costa Rica and Rainforest Conservation:

• Where We Work: The Nature Conservancy in Costa Rica
  Costa Rica is known as a leader of the environmental movement and a pioneer of ecotourism in Central America. The Nature Conservancy is working with Costa Rica's leading environmental organizations to protect the country's rich natural heritage.
• Online Field Guide: Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
  Twenty-five years after its first national park was created here, the Osa Peninsula – a remote paradise harboring a diversity of habitats and biological richness – remains Costa Rica's last wild frontier.
• Great Places Network: Join today and receive free member benefits!
  Join a global community of friends and neighbors committed to working together to ensure the diversity of life on Earth for generations to come.
• Tropical and Temperate Rainforests
  Wild and wondrous, rainforests extend from as far as Alaska and Canada to Latin America, Asia and Africa. They nurture thousands of rainforest animals and plants found nowhere else on Earth and provide life's essentials such as our medicines, food and water.