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A Paris climate change talks primer for Costa Rica

In anticipation of the 195-nation climate talks that start Monday, The Tico Times offers this short primer and guide to our previously-published climate change stories so that you can read up before the conference starts.

Costa Rica restaurant promotes conservation through delicious smoothies

Zero Army, in San José's Barrio Amón, aims to make conservation easy, colorful and delicious.

Costa Rica, US officials sign bilateral conservation agreement

The conservation agreement calls for more expeditious and severe punishment for people found guilty of trafficking endangered wildlife species, and greater exchange of conservation experts, students and researchers.

Monkeys steal show at Costa Rica conservation conference in Punta Leona

Monkeys at break time drive home the point of Costa Rica conservation conference in Punta Leona — that nature and tourism are friends.

Colombia is again the world’s top coca producer. Why that’s a blow to the US

Illegal coca cultivation is surging in Colombia, erasing one of the showcase achievements of U.S. counternarcotics policy and threatening to send a burst of cheap cocaine through the smuggling pipeline to the United States.

Costa Rica launches major conference on private land conservation

An international conference on private conservation and sustainable tourism kicked off Monday night at the Wyndham San José Herradura Hotel, with Vice President Ana Helena Chacón preaching to a choir from over a dozen countries about the need for sustainable, earth-friendly growth in a global economy.

Green Circle unites 5 Costa Rica hotels in eco-tourism marketing venture

"We want to show action and sustainability in an extraordinary way,” said Green Circle Experience co-founder Ed Smit.

Fall migration at Kèköldi, Costa Rica’s million-raptor watch site

One of the most spectacular wildlife displays on the planet is happening in the skies over Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast right now: fall raptor migration and the formation of a "river of raptors." And thanks to a geographic bottleneck, one of the best places in the world to witness it is the Kèköldi indigenous territory on Costa Rica's southern Caribbean coast.

Costa Rica sees increase in wildfires this past season

The number of hectares destroyed by fires in protected areas nearly doubled from the 2014 wildfire season.

Ziplining, bungee jumping in Costa Rica should not be taxed, court rules

Tourism sector leaders are asking President Luis Guillermo Solís to refrain from filing an appeal against the court's ruling.

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