Costa Rica Blogs - Newsfeeds

by Rod Hughes
Dr. Franklin Chang, Costa Rica’s ex-astronaut and favorite native son, this week kicked off a unique campaign using temporary tatoos to save endangered species in the southern Pacific Osa Peninsula region, reported the national press today.
The stick-on tatoos cost 500 colones, less than a dollar, with the proceeds to go to strengthen coastal […]

by Rod Hughes
Limon Province: A diesel locomotive towing 21 cars loaded with bananas tangled with a bull weighing nearly 1,500 lbs. in the verdant banana-producing Valle de la Estrella, killing the bull but derailing the locomotive, reported the daily La Nacion.
Witnesses related that the locally well-known bull, named Chepe, escaped from his pasture and encountered […]