Even in Playa Grande -- the last mass nesting beach in the Eastern Pacific for critically endangered leatherbacks -- menus largely feature seafood caught by longlines and trawling nets, fishing practices that have devastating impacts on sea turtles.
More artisans set up shop in Costa Rica each year. Just in time for you to finish up your holiday shopping, here are a few terrific gifts that were painted, printed, written, designed or concocted in Costa Rica.
In Mexico, conservationists say, environmental oversight is becoming as vulnerable as the wildlife, as program budgets have shrunk and scores of employees at the agency that monitors protected areas have been fired.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Young players from across our region fill the courts at Panama's Circuito Conteca tournament. More than 120 competitors from six countries, including our own...
Canadian carrier Porter Airlines touched down in Costa Rica for the first time, marking the launch of its new route between Toronto Pearson International...
Authorities at Juan Santamaría International Airport have moved forward with updates and expansions after a power outage in September halted air traffic across the...
