conservation

Rivers ‘are excellent barometers’: a conversation with the founder of Rutas Naturbanas

Have you ever wobbled across a suspension bridge over a river in Costa Rica? Or have you bathed in thermal water pools, built at the heart of the river? It turns out that until June 2022, all construction on Costa Rican rivers was illegal—unless it had passed through a series of “cumbersome” administrative processes for […]

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