Costa Rica Blazes a Trail for Conservation
solonavi
18 April 2008
Endangered & Extinction
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Costa Rica is the ultimate trailblazer when it comes to protecting the natural world. In the 1980s, Costa Rica’s forests looked like a moth-eaten sweater, more holes than forest. At its worst, only 21 percent of the country’s legendary jungles remained. Staring down these problems, the Central American nation got creative and started providing “conservation incentives†to encourage people and companies to conserve natural resources.
The plan worked. Costa Rica has rebounded. Today, tropical jungle again covers more than half of the country. The water is getting cleaner. The air is getting fresher.
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No doubt Costa Rica had precious natural resources to protect. Lush tropical rain forests and cloud-shrouded slopes are home to spectacular and threatened species like the Central American tapir, the great green macaw, and the bumblebee-colored harlequin frog. Surfers and hawksbill sea turtles alike flock to the country’s remarkable coastlines. In recent years, the country has seen the boom of an ecotourism industry that strives to reconcile development with environmental protections.
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Costa Rica does a lot of things right in this regard and there are many areas where they need to do MUCH better. The endangered Mono Titi monkeys are not getting the protections that they should because of economic pressures from development. See http://www.SavingMonoTiti.com
18 April 2008 at 12:57 pm