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Farms with natural landscape features provide sanctuary for some Costa Rica rainforest birds
4 September 2023 - Small farms with natural landscape features such as shade trees, hedgerows, and tracts of intact forest provide a refuge for some tropical bird populations, according to an 18-year study in Costa Rica. (more)

For Costa Rica's Indigenous Bribri women, agroforestry is an act of resistance and resilience
29 September 2021 - The Bribri are one of the world's few matrilineal societies: land is handed down from mother to daughter. In Costa Rica's Talamanca region, Indigenous Bribri women are championing sustainable agroforestry practices in a tradition that stretches back for millennia. Known as fincas integrales, it's a system that mimics the diversity and productivity of the forest: timber trees provide shade for fruit trees, which in turn shelter medicinal plants, amid all of which livestock and even wildlife thrive. (more)

A new conservation project is created in Costa Rica
9 November 2020 - Hugo Santa Cruz is a photographer contributing to a new Netflix documentary about nature and coping with COVID-19. A Bolivian currently stuck in Costa Rica due to the pandemic, he has turned his camera lens on the local landscape, which has helped him deal with his separation from family and friends. Many hours spent in the rainforest have given him solace and also an idea to aid the rich natural heritage that he is currently documenting. Santa Cruz is now a co-founder of the new Center for Biodiversity Restoration Foundation, which will work to restore and connect natural areas in the region. (more)

This country regrew its lost forest. Can the world learn from it?
27 July 2020 - Costa Rica is the first tropical country to have stopped -- and subsequently reversed -- deforestation. Can the rest of the world follow its lead? In the 1940s, 75 percent of Costa Rica was cloaked in lush rainforests. Then the loggers arrived, chainsaws in hand, and cleared the land to grow crops and raise livestock. While there is ongoing debate about the extent of reduction, it is thought that between a half and a third of forest cover had been destroyed by 1987. Today almost 60 percent of the land is once again forest. Costa Rica's success is underscored by economics. It paired its ban on deforestation with the introduction of PES, which pays farmers to protect watersheds, conserve biodiversity or capture carbon dioxide. (more)

Costa Rica has banned styrofoam - a major win for the environment
19 June 2019 - After rolling out a national strategy to drastically reduce plastic use by 2021 last year, Costa Rica is now taking its environmental protection efforts a step further by banning the use of styrofoam containers. (more)

Tiny Costa Rica has a Green New Deal, too. It matters for the whole planet.
12 March 2019 - Costa Rica, population 5 million, wants to wean itself from fossil fuels by 2050, and the chief evangelist of the idea is a 38-year-old urban planner named Claudia Dobles who also happens to be the First Lady. ... The country has doubled its forest cover in the last 30 years, after decades of deforestation, so that half of its land surface is now covered with trees. (more)

Costa Rica launches 'unprecedented' push for zero emissions by 2050
25 February 2019 - Costa Rica's President has launched an economy-wide plan to decarbonize the country by 2050, saying the Central American nation aims to show other nations what is possible to address climate change. To cut transport emissions, the plan aims to modernize public transport, including through the creation of an electric train line. (more)

'School of second chances' opens in Costa Rica
16 February 2019 - Last month, The Costa Rican School of Opportunities opened in San Jose and has 75 adult students working toward obtaining a high school degree. It is the only free private school in the country, and maybe Central America, designed to get adults back into the classroom to finish their secondary degrees. The school was the brainchild of Robert Flanzer, a United States citizen from Atlanta (Georgia) with many deep ties to Costa Rica. (more)

Costa Rica's grid used 98 percent renewable energy in 2016
3 January 2017 - Costa Rica ended 2016 on a particularly green note. The Central American nation ran entirely on renewable energy for more than 250 days last year, the country's power operator announced. For Costa Rica, the clean energy success story is likely to continue into 2017. (more)

How Green Technologies will shape the face of Costa Rica
21 June 2016 - Costa Rica has announced that there will be an integration of Solar Energy into the country. And where there have been projects scattered throughout the past 80 years or so in Costa Rica, the first major targeted approach to carbon free energy generation has begun. Architects and Contractors which cater to the more energy efficient housing are more apt to see quicker permits for building, higher sales prices, and retain an ongoing relationship with the Costa Rica building development sector. (more)


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Maharishi University of Management, USA: Study Abroad programmes planned for the coming academic year
26 June 2013 - Students at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, USA, and others will have a number of opportunities to study abroad in the 2013-2014 academic year, including Costa Rica and India. One of the first courses offered is the 'Ethnobotany and Natural Building Study Abroad Program'. The semester-long programme begins in September on the MUM campus and continues in Big Bend, Texas, in October; the final segment takes place in Costa Rica in November and December. (more)

Noted entrepreneur and organic herb producer to teach MUM Rotating University course in Costa Rica
15 March 2013 - Tom Newmark, the former CEO of New Chapter, Inc, one of America's most respected and successful organic vitamin companies, is co-owner of Finca Luna Nueva, an eco-resort and biodynamic organic herb farm in Costa Rica that provides tropical-grown botanicals for some of New Chapter's products. This April, the Sustainable Living Department at Maharishi University of Management is offering an MUM Rotating University course on tropical organic agriculture and rainforest ecology, which will be co-taught by Mr Newmark on the Finca Luna Nueva farm. Mr Newmark recently gave a talk at MUM on 'Organic Agriculture to the Rescue: Using Ancient Farming Wisdom to Heal Our Broken Atmosphere'--about organic agriculture as a simple solution to global warming. (more)

Invincibility Schools for Costa Rica
19 July 2007 - The beautiful country of Costa Rica is moving quickly towards invincibility with schools planned where students will practise Maharishi's Transcendental Meditation Technique in groups. (more)


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Drug trafficking blamed as homicides soar in Costa Rica
1 April 2023 - In this colorful Caribbean port [Limon], where cruise ship passengers are whisked to jungle adventures in Costa Rica's interior, locals try to be home by dark and police patrol with high-caliber guns in the face of soaring drug violence. Costa Rica logged a record 657 homicides last year and Limon -- with a homicide rate five times the national average -- was the epicenter. ...Where Costa Rica had previously been just a pass-through for northbound cocaine from Colombian and Mexican cartels, authorities say it is now a warehousing and transshipment point for drugs sent to Europe by homegrown Costa Rican gangs. (more)

Costa Rica farmers destroy flowers as coronavirus spoils exports
4 April 2020 - Costa Rican flower farmers have started destroying lilies, roses, and chrysanthemums they have lovingly tended for months after the coronavirus outbreak led to the suspension of flights to markets in the United States and Canada. 'This was our work. We have grown and cared for them since they were seeds,' said Cristian Quiros, a worker at the Flores y Verdes del Irazu farm in the central city of Cartago. 'Now we have to throw them away, and it's such a difficult feeling.' (more)

Ousted OAS chief questioned in Costa Rica
15 October 2004 - A former Costa Rican president returned home Friday, a week after he was ousted as chief of the Organization of American States, and was slapped in handcuffs and led off for questioning on allegations he took kickbacks. (more)

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