Vincent Losasso

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Environment and Wildlife

Explore Costa Rica’s Horizontes on a Guided Wildlife Tour

Vincent Losasso - February 9, 2025

I got to know Horizontes, more specifically Estación Experimental Forestal Horizontes, by accident. I had a contract to place camera traps on a few...

Environment and Wildlife

Costa Rica’s Birdlife: Discover the Elusive Night Herons

Vincent Losasso - February 3, 2025

Costa Rica is home to a variety of herons, egrets, and bitterns. In general, they are birds with long legs and sharp beaks that...

Expat Living

Is Progress Always Good? A Decade of Change in Guanacaste, Costa Rica

Vincent Losasso - January 27, 2025

A decade is a period of ten years. The definition doesn’t change. I’m starting to realize that the sensation of a decade slowly changes...

Environment and Wildlife

Costa Rica Wildlife Reveals Mysterious Striped Hog-Nosed Skunk

Vincent Losasso - January 23, 2025

Today we meet the striped hog-nosed skunk, a little-known species that inhabits forests throughout Costa Rica. The striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus) is known...

Environment and Wildlife

Costa Rica Wildlife Guide Confesses Pauraque Pet Peeves

Vincent Losasso - January 18, 2025

Sometimes while working with children in environmental education programming, I’ll have a student comment that one animal or another is bad. I always tell...

Environment and Wildlife