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  2. Reforestation in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    Costa Rica has six different ecosystems, and is considered a biodiversity hotspot– having 5% of the world's total biodiversity within 0.1% of its landmass. [1] The decline of the Costa Rican rainforest was due to unplanned logging in the mid-1900s. Loggers cleared much of the tropical rainforest for profit. [2]

  3. Costa Rican seasonal moist forests - Wikipedia

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    The Costa Rican seasonal moist forests ecoregion (WWF ID: NT0119) covers the Pacific Slope of the volcanic mountain range of northwestern Costa Rica and the extreme south of Nicaragua. The area has a distinct dry season during which the characteristic deciduous trees drop their leaves.

  4. La Selva Biological Station - Wikipedia

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    La Selva Biological Station is a protected area encompassing 1,536 ha of low-land tropical rain forest in northeastern Costa Rica.It is owned and operated by the Organization for Tropical Studies, [2] a consortium of universities and research institutions from the United States, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico. [3]

  5. Children's Eternal Rainforest - Wikipedia

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    The Children's Eternal Rainforest (Spanish: Bosque Eterno de los Niños) is a private land trust and preserve in Costa Rica. The 23,000-hectare (57,000-acre) preserve is run by the non-profit Monteverde Conservation League.

  6. The 10 Most Beautiful Forests Around the World to Add to Your ...

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    Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, Costa Rica. In an almost cinematic act of nature, low-hanging clouds float just above the lush canopy in Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve, an unique ecosystem known ...

  7. Rainforest of the Austrians - Wikipedia

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    These properties become part of the Piedras Blancas National Park. This area of the rainforest was owned by local farmers. This area of the rainforest was owned by local farmers. In 1991 the government of Costa Rica has declared the area as a National Park to protect the forest against the clearing.

  8. Piedras Blancas National Park - Wikipedia

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    It is found in the Puntarenas Province of southern Costa Rica near the town of La Gamba. It protects rainforests and beaches near the Golfo Dulce on the Pacific Coast. It used to operate as part of the Corcovado National Park called the Esquinas Sector from 1991 before becoming a separate park in 1999. Until the mid-1990s, much of the forest in ...

  9. List of ecoregions in Costa Rica - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of ecoregions in Costa Rica. Ecoregions cover relatively large areas of land or water, and contain characteristic, geographically distinct assemblages of natural communities and species. The biodiversity of flora, fauna and ecosystems that characterise an ecoregion tends to be distinct from that of other ecoregions.

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