New app will help Tourists to better understand and locate about 500 species in Costa Rica. The app is called Touit named after a national bird Touits costarricensis The application can be downloaded for free by logging on to www.touit.cr . The app is offered in Spanish and English. The app is designed to assist [...]
Canadian mining operations have faced fierce opposition from numerous Latin America countries and communities over the past decade continuing most recently in Guatemala and Costa Rica. In 2008 a Latin American independent report, Investing in Conflict—Public Money, Private Gain: Goldcorp in the Americas condemns the business practices of Canada mining companies, focusing on the largest, [...]
Costa Rica’s majestic coral reefs, covering approximately 970 km2 of the seabed, have multiple benefits for nature but especially significant economic value. The Interamerican Association for Environmental Defense (AIDA), , shows that 97% of coral reefs are endangered by human practices that continue to push into the marine ecosystems. Although many do not know, numerous [...]
Earlier this year it was announced that Cocos Island National Park would be the first place to have a radar for surveillance system of 15 radars installed to monitor the seas around the island to address problems such as drug trafficking and illegal fishing. Although the system is still at the technical studies phase, these [...]
After the Ministry of Environment and Energy says there is a decline of jaguars in Corcovado making environment authorities pay more attention to the problem, which they feel could be associated with the hunting of wild pigs in the park. The Deputy Minister of Environment, Ana Lorena Guevara, said that this situation is bound to [...]
A team of scientists is using a floating bus to search for the last remaining manatees in the Caribbean waters around the Panama-Costa Rica border as part of a project to protect the endangered marine mammals that inspired the tales of mermaids told by Spanish sailors in the 16th century. The joint Panamanian-Costa Rican project [...]
The National Seismological Network (RSN) warned that the lake in the Poas Volcano could disappear entirely in the next few months, if weather conditions do not bring rainfall which is the main reason the lake exists. The lake has left only 12 meters deep. The lake serves as a kind of filter that stops gases [...]
The absence of a modern law that protects water resources is one of the main threats to the water in Costa Rica, said the environmental sector at the World Water Day conference. The Environmental Federation (FECON) said the expansion of pineapple plantations, hydroelectric dams, the “mutilation of national parks” and the absence of a modern [...]
This March 23, 8:30 to 9:30 pm celebrates Earth Hour. This global initiative, created by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) aims to raise public awareness about the need for action on climate change. Earth Hour broke all records in 2012, uniting hundreds of millions of people from around the world to turn off their lights [...]
The Government and academic and scientific institutions of Costa Rica will work in the coming months to create a virtual atlas of biodiversity of the country, with extensive information and also contains the richest collection of species of the tropical world. The National Biodiversity Institute (INBio), nonprofit organization, announced they gave their huge collection of [...]
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