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Cerro Chompipe and what to do in the inalienable zone

Who should protect Heredia’s water? In San Rafael, the future of Cerro Chompipe is generating debate: should it be a Natural Monument managed by the municipality, or transferred to the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE)? Between protecting the Holdridge toad and the impact of off-road tourism, the community is seeking solutions for its aquifer […]

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Ostional, challenging conservation paradigms since 1987

The research that has been carried out in Ostional since the 1970s has included a continuous analysis of whether the controlled extraction of eggs carried out by the community is detrimental to the species. El Colectivo 506 also wants to know, but above all to understand this community-conservation symbiosis that continues to challenge the conservation paradigm.