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Costa Rican Environmentalists Asks for Endangered Shark Protection

Ileana Fernandez - April 27, 2022

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Coralmania: Celebrating Coral Reef Restoration in Costa Rica

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Ecuador expands Galapagos reserve, hopes to partner with Costa Rica

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FAO and IMO launch global campaign to clean up the oceans

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Meet Costa Rica’s cleanest beaches

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Three beaches will display blue flags with the maximum of five stars for the next 12 months, all of them on the Pacific coast.

Crocodile found dead in Gulf of Nicoya following thousands of washed up fish

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Something very bad is happening in the Gulf of Nicoya, where a dead crocodile turned up just days after thousands of dead sardines washed ashore.

Costa Rican Electricity Institute launches construction of artificial reef

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ICE officials expect algae to begin adhering to the structures so that coral, polyps, fish and other marine species begin reproducing.

Messages along San José’s streets ask people to stop littering

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Estimates from the Health Ministry state that people throw nearly 300 tons of garbage in Costa Rica's streets, sewers, vacant properties and rivers every day.

Costa Rica and Sea Shepherd at odds again over failed turtle conservation effort

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Sea Shepherd's "low profile" campaign to help rescue sea turtles in Jacó recently got nixed by the Costa Rican government when it turned out the conservation group was working without permits.

PHOTOS: Chasing Moby at Uvita’s Whale and Dolphin Festival

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September is probably the best month to see majestic humpback whales with their babies in the shallow waters of Bahía Ballena off the Pacific coast town of Uvita.

Fight over shrimp trawling continues in legislature

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With the start of the new legislative session last week, the government has resumed a battle in the environmental commission over a controversial shrimp trawling bill.

Winners of Costa Rica Fishackathon create tool to help track fuel subsidies for fishing

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Tech firm ImagineXYZ won the Costa Rica Fishackathon 2016 with the idea for a digital remora that would help better track the use of fuel subsidies for fishing boats.

Fishackathon invites conservation-minded techies to help solve overfishing

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This weekend, San José and more than 40 others cities worldwide will challenge groups of coders and scientists to find solutions to overfishing in the third Fishackathon.

Fishermen report more tuna, dolphin along Pacific coast

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The Costa Rican Fisheries Federation (FECOP) credits an October 2014 governmental decree restricting industrial tuna fishing in Costa Rican waters with what it says are recovering tuna and dolphin populations.