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The Osa Peninsula (Spanish: Península de Osa) is a peninsula located in southwestern Costa Rica, in the Puntarenas Province, with the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Golfo Dulce to the east. The peninsula was formed geologically by a faulting system that extends north into California. The peninsula is home to at least half of all species ...
The Osa Peninsula is home to 2.5% of the world's biodiversity. The impacts of tourism, mining, and deforestation cause declines in the biodiversity of native Costa Rican terrestrial and aquatic species. The lowland tropical forest features many diverse habitats that are home to various species including endangered and threatened species.
Osa is an unincorporated community in the northeast corner of Barry County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. [1] The community is on Missouri Route JJ 1.5 miles north of Revisville . Crane in adjacent Stone County is three miles to the east.
Conservation groups hoped to solve these problems by launching another initiative, the Osa Biological Corridor project. The plan was designed to enlarge currently protected areas on the peninsula, and hopes to devote $10 million to develop community support for rewilding by providing education programs and new jobs protecting the reserves. [77]
The Piedras Blancas National Park was established in 1992 as an extension of the Corcovado National Park, in the Osa Peninsula, to which it is connected by a forest corridor which ensures biodiversity and self-sustaining ecological and evolutionary processes between wildlife populations.
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Osa Peninsula, a peninsula in Costa Rica; Osa (canton), a canton in the province of Puntarenas in Costa Rica; Osa Conservation Area, an administrative area in Costa Rica; Osa, India, a village in Allahabad, India; Osa, Iran, a village in Mazandaran Province, Iran; Osa, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, north Poland; Osa, Norway, a village in Ulvik ...
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