Officials from the Public Ministry, judges, prosecutors, Judicial Investigation Agency (OIJ), the National Coast Guard (SNG), and INCOPESCA received a specialized course on illegal...
Renowned actor Leonardo DiCaprio celebrated on his Twitter account the Costa Rican government's decision to expand the marine territory of Cocos Island. The Hollywood...
In San Jose, artisanal fishers demand action off coast of Corcovado
As fish stocks are diminished, so is the livelihood of artisanal fishers. For years,...
The US Coast Guard ship STONE leads Operation Southern Shield, the first patrol dedicated to illegal fishing in Costa Rican waters
Today in Golfito, the...
There is growing international interest in the conservation of the Eastern Tropical Pacific, a vast area of largely thriving but threatened ocean stretching Southwest...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States identified Costa Rica among seven nations for activities relating to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Rumors and uncertainty are running rabid in the sport fishing community after a list of endangered or threatened species was published in the Gaceta,...
The ocean conservation group Turtle Island Restoration Network has teamed up with the imagery crowdsourcing platform Tomnod.com to launch a campaign that allows conservation-minded Internauts to identify illegal fishing boats in satellite imagery of Cocos Island National Park.
Costa Rica’s public security strategy is running into a basic problem: police do not have enough working vehicles to patrol the country. Security Minister...
The Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve has been added to the IUCN Green List of Protected and Conserved Areas, becoming the first protected area...
A long-running international volunteer travel company that sold conservation trips to Costa Rica has shut down and canceled all current and future programs, forcing...
Costa Rica’s long-delayed plan to modernize Puerto Caldera cleared a major hurdle this week after two appeals against the contract award were rejected, allowing...
