Several institutions and organizations have funded studies and other activities carried out by our members. Without their support we could never have achieved so many things during these past years! This is the list of our funding sources including the years when we carried out projects with their funding :

• CEPF (Conservation Internacional/Banco Mundial/GEF) (2004-2005)
• Programa Araucaria / Río San Juan (MARENA/AECI) (2003-2005)
• Save the Manatee Club (1998-2000, 2004-2005)
• Centro Regionale d'Intervento per la Cooperazione (CRIC) de Italia con el financiado de la UNION EUROPEA (2005)
• Oryx Films
• Idea Wild (1996-2000, 2004)
• Fondo Mundial para la Naturaleza (WWF Centroamérica) (2001-2002)
• Amigos de la Tierra, España (1998-2000)
• 100 % Fund/Fauna & Flora International (2000)
• Chiquita Brands (1996-2002)
• Unión Europea (1996-1998)
• Agencia Española de Cooperación Española (AECI) (1996-1998)
• Humedales para el futuro (US Fish and Wildlife Service/Convención Ramsar) (1996-1998)
• National Geographic Society (1998)
• Programa de la Naciones Unidas para el Medio Ambiente (PNUMA) (1998)

These are other institutions that have given us institutional, human or material support during these last six years :

• Ministerio del Ambiente y Energía (MINAE) de Costa Rica, especialmente el personal del Área de Conservación Tortuguero (ACTo)
• Ministerio del Ambiente y los Recursos Naturales (MARENA) de Nicaragua
• Wildlife Trust Internacional (con un agradecimiento especial a James "Buddy" Powell)
• US Geological Survey (con un agradecimiento especial a Bob Bonde)
• Hotel Manatí Lodge
• Fundación de Amigos del Río San Juan (FUNDAR)
• Ejército de Nicaragua

To all of them : THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!