For five years, the San Carlos Forest Development Commission (Codeforsa) has promoted the planting of flowering trees. Now the Codeforsa initiative has taken off and they are promoting the campaign "Costa Rica en Flor" (Costa Rica Flowering), which consists...
This Friday, Mawy 22th, at a press conference in the Presidential Palace auditorium, on the occasion of the “International Day for Biological Diversity”, and as a strategy to mitigate the socio-economic impacts generated by the global COVID-19 Pandemic,
the...
With 30% of its territory protected by National Parks and Natural Reserves, Costa Rica is a country that offers multiple natural landscapes where exploring them is best lived on foot. Its trails in tropical forests, cloud forests, mangroves, beaches,...
Poison dart frogs belong to the scientific family Dendrobatidae, which contains more than 175 individual species that are distributed in a range that includes much of Central and South America
Los Quetzales National Park is located in the Los Santos area, in southern Costa Rica, between the province of San Gerardo de Dota on the Talamanca mountain range and the Savegre river basin. About 80 km from San José,...
Acid rain is considered to be those precipitations with high concentrations of sulfuric and nitric acid. It causes significant damage to vegetation, wiping out nitrogen-fixing microorganisms. A very important indirect effect is the impoverishment of certain essential nutrients so...
As part of the effort made at the country level to promote economic recovery, the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) and the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) authorize, from August 17th, the access of visitors to 13...
Recently was known through the media that the Asian giant hornet has been seen prowling in the northern United States, probably migrating from Asia. According to this report, it was first spotted in December 2019 at Washington State.
Regarding its...
