1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (377+ words) The gap does not mean the animal was absent from the Osa Peninsula for that entire period. Jaguars range across large territories, and even an extensive camera network covers only a fraction of the forest at any moment. What the…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (262+ words) Some important decisions arrive with headlines, prohibitions, and grand speeches. Others seem much more modest. Last week in Lisbon, we saw one of the latter. Information on billfish in the Eastern Tropical Pacific exists, but much of it remains fragmented....

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (591+ words) Fundación MarViva has published two resources on the Gulf of Nicoya that together make a single argument: the people who have fished, gathered and lived along the gulf for generations should hold real decision-making power over what happens to it,…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (276+ words) The measure is a law to make the National Parks Service Law of 1977 more flexible in cases of natural disaster and imminent danger. It would create exceptions to current prohibitions to permit the removal of soil, rock, sand, gravel and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (390+ words) Costa Rican Geologists Call for Referendum on Crucitas Gold Mining The Tico Times COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER Costa Rican Geologists Call for Referendum on Crucitas Gold Mining Costa Rica’s professional association of geologists is calling for a referendum…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (458+ words) Costa Rica’s Pacific Waters Reach Unusually High Temperatures The Tico Times COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER Costa Rica’s Pacific Waters Reach Unusually High Temperatures Ocean temperatures along Costa Rica’s Pacific coast are running unusually high, with researchers recording water…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (363+ words) The rare blue octopus that surprised scientists has returned to the Galápagos Islands. The specimen, about the size of a golf ball, will be preserved at the Charles Darwin Research Station, which houses an extensive collection representing the archipelago’s extraordinary…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (612+ words) Costa Rica Court Orders Protection Plan for Playa Blanca After 32-Year Delay The Tico Times COSTA RICA'S LEADING ENGLISH LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER Costa Rica Court Orders Protection Plan for Playa Blanca After 32-Year Delay Costa Rica’s Constitutional Court has ordered environmental…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (264+ words) Two slope sectors near Siquirres, at kilometers 100 and 112, are still eroding and shedding material with no good drainage. At some critical points, Lanamme found, nobody is pursuing a permanent fix at all. Inspectors also found crews working with no supervisor…...

2+ week, 19+ hour ago   (254+ words) Currently unknown numbers of wild animals are illegally pulled from Costa Rica’s forests, rivers and coastlines every year, according to the Attorney General’s Office, and the pipeline moving them has increasingly shifted from backwoods trappers to Facebook sellers and encrypted…...