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Conservation and Culture: The Costa Rica Project
The tropical forests of Costa Rica come alive during the spring and our team members will be there to discover both the successes and pitfalls of Costa Rica's ambitious conservation programs. Through extensive field study, seminars and forest travel, participants will gain firsthand knowledge of Costa Rica's diverse tropical ecosystems. A... read more
The tropical forests of Costa Rica come alive during the spring and our team members will be there to discover both the successes and pitfalls of Costa Rica's ambitious conservation programs. Through extensive field study, seminars and forest travel, participants will gain firsthand knowledge of Costa Rica's diverse tropical ecosystems. Along the way, we will explore the cultural framework that underlies wildlife and wild land conservation efforts.
Costa Rica is a land of extremes. From the white sand beaches of Guanacaste to the verdant cloud forests of Monteverde, contrast is but a rain shadow away. As we will discover, Costa Rica is a wellspring for the ecologically-minded student and traveler. It is home to a wide array of unique ecosystems, including rare patches of tropical dry forest, tropical wet forest, cloud forest, mangrove and coral reef environments.
Our reef studies will take us to the Pacific coast and some of Central America's great coral ecosystems. Here, with snorkel and mask, we will field examine threatened oceanic environments and contribute our findings to scientific researchers. Our tropical forest studies will be centered in the Caribbean Lowlands, a region lauded by naturalists as Costa Rica's most diverse forest setting.
Both our reef examination and tropical forest studies provide examples of the trade-offs between economic expansion and the protection of natural areas. Successful park systems, along with privately owned nature reserves, occur within a matrix of ranching, farming and commercial agriculture. The contrasts between conservation and development will be a focus of our discussions.
Supplementing our field observations will be examinations of pressing environmental issues, in a country where colonization, and political history have strongly influenced its geography. Culturally and practically, Costa Rica is a land of fences. Humans and nature are often separated spatially and intellectually. And while many have looked upon Costa Rica as a model of success in the conservation of its natural resources, the past two decades has seen some of the world's highest deforestation rates. Habitat loss highlights the need for projects such as ours to help identify and understand the effects of development and economic expansion on the region.
By considering the tremendous diversity of Costa Rica's ecosystems together with the history and needs of its people, participants will gain a genuine appreciation for the complexities of tropical conservation. We will leave with practical skills in the observation and monitoring of Central American wild environments and, we will experience the creativity and compromise that are essential to the success of conservation. Less
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