For funders · A landscape with a track record

Fund what is already working.

For more than three decades, the forest at the Eco Era reserve has remained under continuous family-led stewardship.

Field research has documented hundreds of plant and animal species here, and the forest protects headwater systems feeding two major rivers.

Eco Era maintains active stewardship, patrols, research relationships, watershed work, and landscape-level conservation partnerships. Posada Natura provides an earned-revenue stream that helps carry the organization's operating costs.

Philanthropic support lets Eco Era go further.

For climate funders

Begin with intact forest

Cerro Nara's primary rainforest holds substantial carbon in living biomass, roots, soils, and dead organic matter while continuously cycling water and energy through the regional atmosphere.

Its climate value also extends beyond carbon accounting. Forest cover cools the landscape, protects soils, moves moisture through evapotranspiration, regulates runoff, and helps maintain hydrological conditions through periods of extreme rainfall and drought.

Protecting an intact forest avoids the ecological debt created when complex old forest is lost and must somehow be rebuilt.

For biodiversity funders

Begin with connection

Documented diversity here is unusually high for a property of this size, and the surrounding corridor gives wide-ranging and climate-sensitive species room to move between habitats and elevations.

Funding can directly support biological monitoring, anti-poaching work, research partnerships, corridor agreements, and habitat protection.

For water funders

Begin upstream

Forest at the Eco Era reserve sits within the headwater landscape of two major river systems. Protecting it means protecting the vegetation, soil structure, tributaries, and groundwater processes influencing water quality and downstream flow.

Funding can support water-quality monitoring, watershed research, erosion prevention, riparian protection, and coordination with downstream communities.

For community funders

Begin with relationship

Water connects the forest to the people living below it. Posada Natura connects conservation to the people who enter it.

Eco Era's model treats the health of the forest and the wellbeing of the people in it as one piece of work.

Funding can strengthen environmental education, community relationships, human-wildlife coexistence, and access to nature-based programming.

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2025 financials

How the funding works

Total revenue: $152,335
Total expenditures: $150,652
Year end: Close to operational balance

$106,993

$34,300

$11,041

Earned revenue connected with Posada Natura retreat programmingCorporate and foundation grantsIndividual donors

Eco Era's financial model combines contributed support with income generated by Posada Natura.

This gives Eco Era a comparatively unusual foundation for a small conservation organization. Much of the annual operating work can be supported by activity happening on the land itself.

Grants and individual giving can then expand what the work covers.