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    Reforestation efforts are being made in Costa Rica to recondition its biodiversity and ecosystems that were affected by heavy deforestation in the 1900s...
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    Renewable energy in Costa Rica supplied about 98.1% of the electrical energy output for the entire nation in 2016. Fossil fuel energy consumption (% of...
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    replanted after felling. In such circumstances, the industry can cut the trees in a way to allow easier reforestation. Reforestation, if several indigenous...
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    Deforestation is a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystems in Costa Rica. The country has a rich biodiversity with some 12,000 species of plants,...
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    Costa Rica (UK: /ˌkɒstə ˈriːkə/, US: /ˌkoʊstə-/ ; Spanish: [ˈkosta ˈrika]; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country...
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    Daniel Oduber Quirós (category 20th-century presidents of Costa Rica)
    October 13, 1991) was a Costa Rican politician, lawyer, philosopher, poet, and essayist. He served as the President of Costa Rica from 1974 to 1978. He...
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    movement developed in Europe in the 18th century, Costa Rica as a country has been heralded its champion in the current times. Costa Rica hosts an astonishing...
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    Monteverde is the twelfth canton of the Puntarenas province of Costa Rica, located in the Cordillera de Tilarán (Tilarán range). Roughly a four-hour drive...
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    Corcovado) is a National Park on the Osa Peninsula, in Osa Canton, located on the southwestern regions of Costa Rica (9° North, 83° West), which is a part of the...
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    Bursera graveolens (category Plants described in 1824)
    conservation status as "stable". In Ecuador there are reforestation programs for the palo santo tree. To reforest, the transplant method is used, which consists...
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    Absolute Natural Reserve is a Nature Reserve of Costa Rica, part of the Tempisque Conservation Area in the province of Puntarenas, covering an area of...
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  • Alvaro Umaña (category Academic staff of the University of Costa Rica)
    minister nearly 15,000 acres were reforested. In February 1988, Umaña announced results of a satellite survey of Costa Rica's forests, which showed that only...
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    The Sloth Conservation Foundation (category Non-profit organizations based in Costa Rica)
    (SloCo) is a non-profit organisation based in Costa Rica that is dedicated to the protection of sloths living in wild and human-modified habitats through...
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  • UGA Costa Rica is one of the three international residential centers owned and operated by the University of Georgia. The largest of these centers—the...
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    Three-wattled bellbird (category Birds described in 1853)
    "vulnerable". The Monteverde Institute in Costa Rica is working to conserve the bellbird's natural habitat through its reforestation program. The organization has...
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    jicaro and salero. It is found in Central and South America. It has been considered an endangered species in Costa Rica (IUCN, 1988). Lecythis ampla is...
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    zapote rojo, zapote de castilla, zapote de montana (Costa Rica), zapote verde, zapote injerto (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras), injerto verde (Guatemala)...
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    "Payments for environmental services in Costa Rica". Ecological Economics. Payments for Environmental Services in Developing and Developed Countries. 65...
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    Maleku people (category Indigenous peoples in Costa Rica)
    The Maleku are an indigenous people of Costa Rica located in the Guatuso Indigenous Reserve near the town of Guatuso (San Rafael de Guatuso). Historically...
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    raise awareness for reforestation, education and socio-economic development in the surrounding areas. In October 1998, the Costa Rican Patent Office granted...
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    Enterolobium cyclocarpum (category National symbols of Costa Rica)
    curiously shaped seedpods. The abundance of this tree, especially in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, where it is prized for the shady relief it provides from...
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  • Maderas Rainforest Conservancy (category Animal welfare organizations based in Nicaragua)
    purchasing and managing forested and deforested lands in strategic locations, initially in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Deforested lands will be tactically...
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    kilometres (2,076 sq mi) of forest were lost in the region. In 2010 Belize had 63% of remaining forest cover, Costa Rica 46%, Panama 45%, Honduras 41%, Guatemala...
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    Irazú Volcano National Park (category 1955 establishments in Costa Rica)
    Volcano National Park, or in Spanish the Parque Nacional Volcán Irazú, is a National Park in the Central Conservation Area of Costa Rica that encompasses the...
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  • Kéköldi (category 1977 establishments in Costa Rica)
    environmental treatise from Costa Rica's KéköLdi Indigenous Reserve. Sánchez, Juanita., Mayorga, Gloria. (2nd ed.). San José, Costa Rica: Asociación de Desarrollo...
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    Goethalsia meiantha (category Plants described in 1914)
    of Colombia, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panamá. It is very common to the second-growth forests in Costa Rica, and other forests in humid regions...
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  • Desarrollo Forestal Montreal (category Nature reserves in Costa Rica)
    Forestal de Costa Rica and acquired 50% of the Cordilleras Centrales shares to later subscribe reforestation contracts. The reforestation project subsequently...
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    Central American squirrel monkey (category Mammals described in 1872)
    the Pacific coast of Costa Rica and Panama. It is restricted to the northwestern tip of Panama near the border with Costa Rica, and the central and southern...
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  • Kids Saving the Rainforest (category Environmental organizations based in Costa Rica)
    Rainforest (KSTR) is a Costa Rica–based non-governmental non-profit 501(c)(3) organization founded in 1999 to plant trees in depleted areas of the country...
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    connecting the northern and southern portions of the Americas. Panama borders Costa Rica to the north-west, Colombia to the south-east, the Caribbean Sea to the...
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