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The challanges facing this project are similar to those facing many reforestation and habitat restoration projects around the world. The main limiting factor is always the ability to find sufficient resources, both financial and human capital. Large scale reforestation and habitat restoration projects are extremely expensive. They are also time and labor intensive. Part of the problem is that results take many years to play out, and maintaining donor interest is more difficult due to this lag. Finding sufficient manual labor to carry out these activities can also be difficult. As well, in a country like Costa Rica bureaucratic inertia is a major limiting factor. Getting the proper institutional support to work on protected land owned by the government is not always as easy as one would imagine it to be.

In these difficult cases finding and creating the proper partnerships is crucial.