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Podcast in Spanish: For these rural Costa Rican communities, the solution to forest fires comes from within

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In our final longform of 2022, we’re proud to present our first longform story created for audio. We talk to two women who have...
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‘We’re the ones who built it, so we can take it apart’

Katherine Stanley Obando -
El Colectivo 506 has brought us into contact with many new friends, but it’s also started fresh conversations with familiar faces. Such is the...
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Join a new kind of journalism community!

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El Colectivo 506 is an independent media organization founded in Costa Rica in 2020 by a group of women passionate about independent journalism and...
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‘Starting with small projects, we can create change’

Katherine Stanley Obando -
Readers passionate about education have been a constant presence at El Colectivo 506—teachers, administrators, parents and students alike. So it made sense that during...
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‘I don’t know how to close the gap, but I think journalism can’

Katherine Stanley Obando -
Since the launch  of El Colectivo 506, Marie Garnier—a Costa Rican university professor based in the Netherlands—has been one of our most passionate readers....
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A dangerous narrative: the migrant crisis in Costa Rica

Carrie McCracken -
As an international educator and advocate for immigrant and refugee rights, I often use Costa Rica as an example for humanitarian refugee policies in...
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‘We need less bureaucracy and more action’

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Who would you rely on if flood waters took your bedding, your belongings, or even your home? The thing is, none of us know that...
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Why you are the key to solutions journalism

Katherine Stanley Obando -
When a journalism student asked me earlier this week how El Colectivo 506 finds the solutions that we report about, a series of faces...
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‘There are hidden gems you’ll never see if you stay on the highway’

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A Zoom chat with Dakota Bishop reminded me instantly of so many of the reasons I’ve become a stalwart fan of Returned Peace Corps...
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Welcome to ‘Hop on the bus’

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As I write this, my house is on the verge. Paper bats and pumpkins from Halloween coexist in spooky harmony with bright marigolds for...
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The dark-soul magnolia rises among the forests of Urrao

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Every day in the Colibrí del Sol reserve, two women protect the Urrao magnolia, an endangered tree, from indiscriminate logging and agricultural expansion that...

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The rebirth of Santa Julia: the urban wetland that unites conservation and livelihood

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