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2 days ago · Deforestation rates. Costa Rica’s journey as a guardian of biodiversity has faced significant challenges, including rampant deforestation between the 1960s and 1980s, with rates approaching 4 percent annually. The wanton clearance of forests was primarily driven by the huge expansion of pastureland for cattle ranching as well as agriculture ...
Apr 27, 2024 · Between 1940 and 1990, forest cover in Costa Rica shrank from 75 to just 29 percent. Another American conservationist, Kenton Miller, first envisioned a national park in Guanacaste in 1966.
20 hours ago · Costa Rica’s proactive environmental policies have spearheaded significant conservation successes, particularly in reversing the rampant deforestation trends that peaked between the 1960s and 1980s.
May 1, 2024 · Updated May 1, 2024, 8:14 AM PDT. Costa Rica restored its forests and switched to renewable energy — what can the world learn from it? By Justine Calma, a senior science reporter covering...
3 days ago · Costa Rica is a real success story when it comes to climate action. It's the first tropical country to have actually reversed deforestation. And it's hugely diverse rainforests now cover around 60% of the country, having previously shrunk as low as 40% in the late 1980s.
2 days ago · In Costa Rica, we are trying to implement in the 24 Indigenous territories the Territorial Forestry Environmental Plans (PAFT), which are the result of a 13-year consultation process led by the ...
Apr 26, 2024 · From the establishment and management of protected areas, to the eradication and control of invasive species, to the sustainable management of ecosystems, to habitat loss reduction and restoration, the research finds that conservation actions improve the state of biodiversity or slow its decline the majority of the time (66% of the time ...
