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Environmental Concerns Prompt Calls to Halt Ocean Cove Project in Manuel Antonio

Tico Times - January 8, 2026

Costa Rica Highway to Close Temporarily for Wildlife Crossing Installations

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Costa Rica Rescues Orphaned Manatee Calf in Tortuguero

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Costa Rica’s Térraba Community Battles Biodiversity Loss with Tree-Planting Revival

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How AI Is Changing Wildlife Research in Costa Rica

Vincent Losasso -

My work, using camera traps in wildlife monitoring projects, involves two extremes. I’m either hiking up a never-ending hill, splashing through a stream, and...

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Costa Rica Leads Effort to Shield Sloths from Growing Illegal Trade

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Costa Rica, alongside Brazil and Panama, has secured new international safeguards for two species of two-toed sloths, as nations at the United Nations Convention...

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Mass Die-Off in Costa Rica’s Madre de Dios Lagoon Sparks Alarm

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A wave of dead fish, birds and reptiles has washed up along the canals and beaches linked to Madre de Dios Lagoon, signaling a...

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El Niño Causes Massive Coral Die-Off at Costa Rica’s Isla del Caño

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Scientists report that the 2023-2024 El Niño event delivered a severe blow to coral reefs around Isla del Caño, one of Costa Rica's key...

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Costa Rica Jaguar Caught on Camera Trap in Guanacaste Forest

Vincent Losasso -

The forest that I visit in person isn’t the same place my camera traps record. When I’m physically there it takes all of ten...

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Viral Video Shows Chimpanzee Smoking at Chinese Zoo

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A video showing a chimpanzee smoking a cigarette at a zoo in southern China has spread rapidly online, raising concerns about animal welfare and...

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Moderate Quake Off Puntarenas Coast Shakes Central Costa Rica

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A 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit off Costa Rica's Pacific coast on Saturday afternoon, according to Oviscori. The tremor occurred at 12:41 p.m. local time, centered...

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How Costa Rica’s Latest Climate Plan Protects Coasts and Cuts Emissions

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Costa Rica has submitted its updated climate plan to the United Nations, setting new goals to protect and restore coastal wetlands as part of...

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Central America’s Five Great Forests are Lifelines for Migratory Birds

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Each year, as the wet season winds down in Costa Rica, the air fills with the calls of warblers and thrushes arriving from their...

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Costa Rica Jaguar Documentary Explores Olive Ridley Arribada in Santa Rosa Park

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PBS's latest NATURE episode, Jaguar Beach, brings viewers to Costa Rica's Pacific coast, where jaguars and olive ridley sea turtles interact in ways that...