Costa Rica's Central Pacific Conservation Area (ACOPAC) has seen a decrease by up to 90 percent in complaints related to tourists feeding or approaching crocodiles, the Environment Ministry’s National System of…
[caption id="attachment_59788" align="alignright" width="258"] (Courtesy Public Security Ministry)[/caption] Nothing like walking out on to your front porch in the morning and finding a crocodile staring back at…
In Pre-Amazonian Peru, the crocodile was king. Seven species of crocodile, to be precise. That's more species of crocodile than have ever been found co-existing in one…
The central Pacific town of Quepos near Manuel Antonio National Park had an unwelcome tourist over the weekend. The sight of a 200-kilogram (440-pound) crocodile waddling through the streets…
It wasn't only sunburnt tourists basking in the sunny Pacific beaches last weekend. According to the Public Security Ministry, police in the central Pacific beach town of…
Read more about the urban caimans in our original story: Caimans evade capture in San José Park A lake in a San José metropolitan park lost a…
It's been two solid hours and Carlos Gómez and Minor González of Costa Rica's National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) haven't seen as much as a scale…
Crocodile stories keep surfacing lately in Costa Rica. One hung out shoreside with tourists in Guanacaste on Wednesday. A couple weeks ago a croc crashed a hospital…
Swimmers in Guanacaste had an unwelcome sunbather at the beach, the National Police reported on Wednesday. The leathery-skinned beach bum wasn’t a sunburned Gringo but a 3.5-meter-long crocodile.…
