THE PROJECT

About WILDLIFE FRUITS

WILDLIFE FRUITS is a small non-profit association run by two nature lovers dedicated to saving wildlife and protecting nature.

Our organizational structure is very lean and all our efforts and your financial and administrative support go straight into practical work.

Our team

Hannes 'Coco' Klein
Hannes 'Coco' KleinCEO & Founder
Coco worked for 25 years in media creation – first as a camera operator, later also as a director and producer with his own production company in Austria.

When he explored scuba diving he found his passion for ocean and nature conservation. With a former colleague, he produced an award-winning short documentary about a whale rescue in Costa Rica.

He is a certified permaculture designer and he loves to grow seeds, dig holes, plant trees, and take care of them.

Els de Vriese
Els de VrieseAdministrative & creative support
Els worked for 15 years as an animal welfare coordinator in a Belgian Department for Nature and Environment.

In 2020, she set up a digital network for wildlife rescue centers in Costa Rica. Confronted with the negative impact of defragmentation of wildlife habitats, she realized that creating biological corridors, even on a small scale, makes a huge difference in supporting wildlife and enhancing biodiversity.

After planting over 200 trees in the South Pacific area, she joined WILDLIFE FRUITS as an administrative and creative support to the project.

Els is helping nature lovers with free travel advice about Costa Rica. Her blog underthetrees.be is in Dutch (but automatically translates with Google Chrome).

corridor in Tierra Madre
reforestation area Nicoya

Our history