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Costa Rica
Environment  (tags: Costa Rica, environment, conservation, protection )

Cher
- 231 days ago - conservation.org
Costa Rica is the ultimate trailblazer when it comes to protecting the natural world. In the 1980s, Costa Rica's forests looked like a moth-eaten sweater, more holes than forest. At its worst, only 21 percent of the country's legendary jungles remained.
Costa Rica Plants 5 Million Trees
Environment  (tags: Costa Rica, plant trees, global warming )

Eduardo
- 363 days ago - insidecostarica.com
Costa Rica, a leader in eco-tourism and home to some of the world's rarest species, planted its 5 millionth tree of 2007 on Wednesday as it tries to put a brake on global warming.
Largest Debt-for-Nature Swap Ever Yields $26M for Costa Rica's Forests
Environment  (tags: costa rica, conservation, science, debt-for-nature, debt, government, trade, the nature conservancy, nature conservancy, environment, green, earth, rainforest, rainforests, forest, forests, tropical forest, tropical forests, trees, animals, wildlife )

Jonathon
- 414 days ago - nature.org
The Nature Conservancy has brokered the largest debt-for-nature swap in history -- $12.6 million in debt will be forgiven and $26 million will be provided to finance tropical forest conservation in Costa Rica over the next 16 years.
Photo Essay: Red-Eyed Tree Frog in the Rainforest
Environment  (tags: frog, frogs, tree frog, tree frogs, treefrog, treefrogs, amphibians, animals, wildlife, fauna, endangered species, environment, nature, forest, forests, deforestation, rainforest, rainforests, rain forest, rainforests, costa rica, conservation, tnc )

Jonathon
- 462 days ago - nature.org
Besides serving as Care2's mascot, the cute red-eyed tree frog is a real rainforest ambassador. Watch the life cycle of tree frogs -- from birth, maturity, reproduction, and predation by insects, snakes, and caimans. Stunning, beautiful photos!
Costa Rica's Monkeys Lose Ground to Developers
Environment  (tags: developers, land, destruction habitatdestruction, monkeys, spider monkeys, costa rica )

Simone
- 494 days ago - enn.com
Costa Rica has lost up to half of its monkeys over the last 12 years as developers expanding into their jungle habitat isolate them in small communities, scientists said Thursday. Populations of monkeys including howler, white face, spider and
   

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