Responding to an official complaint filed with the National Animal Health Service (SENASA), police raided a Cartago home last week. With only two small bedrooms and a cramped sitting room, the tiny house had served as the only living space for 18 French poodles, part of an illegal breeding operation.
Though record-breaking cocaine seizures have been keeping law enforcement busy lately, a police unit in Costa Rica's Osa Peninsula, on the southern Pacific coast,...
One year has passed since 26-year-old sea turtle conservationist Jairo Mora was murdered on Moín Beach, but little has changed for the beach's turtles or those who try to protect them.
Every year, from late February through July, leatherback sea turtles haul themselves onto Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast to lay their eggs, and every year, egg poachers are there to greet them.
A comprehensive Tico Times analysis of the environmental successes and failures by the outgoing National Liberation Party administration of Laura Chinchilla. The first part in a two part series about the future of the environment in Costa Rica.
Because of its scenic beauty on land and its great variety of marine species, German tourist Steven Almoa said Isla del Coca is one of the best places in the world for scuba diving.
