About FARN

The Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales (FARN - Environment and Natural Resources Foundation) was created in 1985. It is a non-profit, non-governmental, non-partisan organization, whose main objective is to promote sustainable development through policy, law and institutional organization. Most of the work done by FARN seeks to benefit public and private decision-makers.

FARN's proposals are based on: Environmental Policy, in the search for effective definitions as to desired and possible environments; on Environmental Law and Legislation, in securing the protection and conservation of the environment through the observance of rights and duties; on Institutional Organization, in getting different sectors to assume their duties and responsibilities in environmental protection.

One of the main objectives of FARN's work is to encourage citizen participation, as it is they who are responsible for complying with and enforcing laws, for agreeing upon policies and for providing resources to prevent environmental problems.

FARN´s activities are funded thanks to donations from the private sector (individuals, businesses, foreign and national foundations), as well as from national and international public organizations.