Nature
This Is How Guanacaste’s Most Vulnerable Trees Die
Logging, ranching, brush clearing, and fires impede reproduction of species at risk of extinction, Experts urge imposing bans on timber-yielding trees in the province
As you are reading this article, it is likely that someone else is cutting down a tree native to Guanacaste that is at risk or danger of extinction - permits or not.
Studies from the Costa Rican Technological Institute (in Spanish, TEC) have warned of...
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Help In Guanacaste’s Conservation Areas This Holy Week
Guanacaste offers a thousands ways for tourists and locals to enjoy Holy Week. A different alternative is volunteering in national parks and wildlife refuges. The Tempisque Conservation Area (in Spanish, ACT) has five different programs, four...
Decorate Your Home With Native Plants
Having a garden at home requires a lot of care and hard work. If the garden designed with plants that don’t grow naturally in this area, it is unsustainable. Seasons changes in the tropical dry forest cause plants to change color, dry out, or lose their leaves.
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Advertorial - Coopeguanacaste’s Signs Prevent Accidents With Animals
The number of accidents involving Guanacaste’s wildlife has swollen over the last five years. The amount of dead animals on the Pan-American Highway’s northern stretch surpassed 100 during this period. Over 40 different species were involved, including anteaters, coati, opossums...
Nicoyan Farmers Harvest Rainwater to Survive the Summer
El Joboa and Cerro Verde are two small villages boxed in by Nicoya’s mountains. In order to get there you have to travel over narrow dirt roads that rise and fall in the foothills. Once you arrive, quiet reigns while the inhabitants are out...
Nosara’s GreenZones Program: Appreciating Nature via Meditation and Cell Phone Photography
Walking barefoot, silent, and with slow, exaggerated steps, I follow my teacher on the jungle path. The softening late afternoon light dapples the trees and brush and I notice orange pods on the ground and yellow green leaves alongside me. I spy the pochote tree and take out my cell phone camera...
6 of the 10 Cantons With the Most Forest Fires Are in Guanacaste
If you’ve seen a burning field or mountainside in the summertime, it’s not a coincidence. In fact, it’s an everyday occurrence in Guanacaste, the province with the most forest fires in the country.
Of the 10 Costa Rican cantons with the most forest fires, six are...
‘We Haven’t Seen This Many Dead Fish in 18 Years,’ Nicoya Gulf Resident Says
Several Nicoya Gulf communities began their Wednesday in mourning following the death of thousands of sardines and sea bass spread across 2.05 kilometers of beach, according to the coast guard....
Guanacaste To Become 1st Province to Use Drones to Measure Bean Crop Production
How many beans are planted in the country? The answer is key to establishing trade mechanisms that are fair for both producers and consumers, but authorities don’t know the answer....
UNA Veterinarians Save Ocelot Struck By Vehicle in Tamarindo
A group of veterinarians from the National University’s Smaller Species and Wildlife Hospital (HEMS-UNA) saved the life of an ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) that was struck by a vehicle in Tamarindo.
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Guanacaste, Home of the ‘Greatest Wildlife Spectacles’
There are no great theaters or stadiums in Guanacaste, but in this ardent province of 10,140 square kilometers some of the most astounding natural displays in all of Costa Rica occur.
Those moments when nature appears to be strikingly...
Pascal Girot: ‘I’ll go out on a limb and say we’re going to have increasingly severe episodes of drought in Guanacaste’
Climate forecasts for the Guanacaste region from one of the most important global meetings, the U.N. Climate Change Summit in Morocco (COP22), aren’t very encouraging, admits Pascal Girot, sector coordinator for the Government Climate Change Office.
In an interview with The Voice of...
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