Description: The ITCFund – USA (also known as ClimatePath Ecologic Fund) is a US 501c3 charity created to fund high impact ecological conservation projects. As a partner with the Corozal Sustainable Future Initiative, the primary goal is to support tropical forest preservation work in Belize. Shipstern, ITCF’s main project to this day, covers approximately 21’750 acres.
The International Tropical Conservation Fund (ITCF) is a charity created in 1989 by two European zoos, the Papiliorama Foundation in Kerzers, Switzerland, and the Royal Burgers’ Zoo of Arnhem, Netherlands. The ITCF strives to link words to acts by carrying out very concrete and efficient action to conserve tropical ecosystems. It is very much an international and decentralized organization, legally based in several countries around the world.
ITCF’s mission is to contribute to the conservation of tropical forests, by funding and carrying out highly practical and concrete projects in the tropics.
Its goal is to dedicate its support to projects over a very long period of time, in order to ensure their long-term viability, and to fund what is traditionally so difficult to fund, namely operational costs.