At the time, there were few national parks in Costa Rica, and the TSC had a program to create private preserves for research and biological education, where each preserve would represent a different ecological area of the country.
Nese momento, había poucos parques nacionais en Costa Rica, e o TSC tiña un programa para crear coutos privados de investigación e ensinanza da bioloxía, onde cada reserva representaría unha área ecolóxica diferente do país.