At the Refugio Herpetológico animal sanctuary in Santa Ana, the wards often have heart-breaking histories, but occasionally they are successfully released.
There are 925 species of birds in Costa Rica, representing almost 10 percent of the species in the world, and tourism officials are hoping to cash in on the rising market of tourists interested in watching them.
It's one thing to know that sea turtles have been laying eggs on beaches for tens of millions of years. It's quite another to go to Tortuguero and watch it happen.
On the black sands of Playa Hermosa, just below Jacó on the Central Pacific Coast, turtle-hatching season has begun again. And from an ideal vantage point on the beach, the Sandpiper Hotel on Hermosa's northern end stands as a symbol for the conservation efforts taken to help get as many baby turtles into the sea as possible.
Decades after the Latin American literature "boom," which made magical realism the region's distinctive hallmark, several of its most notable books are gaining new...
