by Rod Hughes
Dos Pinos, the dairy products giant that not only has the lion´s share of the Costa Rican market for milk, ICE cream, etc. but is an exporter of these products, has been fined $150,000 by the Administrative Envrionment Tribunal, reported the newspaper La Nacion today. The fine […]
by Rod Hughes
Costa Rica’s territorial waters, only a drop in the planet’s oceans, contain 6,778 species of marine life, or 3.5% of the species on the planet. This is pretty good, since the tiny area comprises only .16% of the all oceans’ surface area. This information is revealed in the […]
by Rod Hughes
The Environmental Tribunal shut down three condominium projects yesterday because of damage to the habitat. They are the “Costa Montana” and “Hermosa Vista” condo projects near Jaco Beach as well as “Hills of Esterillos” at Parrita, totalling 360 dwellings in all.
According to the […]
by Rod Hughes
An error in a law passed three years ago inadvertantly leaves open Costa Rican territorial waters, including wildlife perserve Cocos Island, to illegal fishing. The error was not discovered until the prosecution of the tuna fishing boat Tiuna Jan. 29.
The law was aimed […]
by Rod Hughes
In an unusual move, Costa Rica’s top prosecutor, Francisco Dall’Anese, launched harsh criticism of a Puntarenas judge who released 22 seamen arrested for fishing in the Cocos Island wildlife preserve. “This sets a bad precedent,” said Dall’Anese, “It says to international tuna fishermen that they can come to […]
by Rod Hughes
One of the great archaeological mysteries of this country are the pre-Columbian stone spheres, some basketball size, others 15-ton monsters. One was found on its original site last month, on an archaeological dig in Palmar Sur, in southern Costa Rica near the Pacific Ocean.
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by Rod Hughes
It’s no secret that people like bananas, one of this country’s most lucrative and oldest export crops. But so do a host of tropic enemies.
Insects feast on the leaves, the dread Black Sigatoka fungus kills the plant and nematodes, parasites, gnaw on the […]
by Rod Hughes
Some of the nation’s farmers are gearing up for sugar cane and palm oil production, anticipating the promised RECOPE refinery introduction of ethanol-laced gasoline and diesel. The newspaper La Nacion has reported that 10,000 hectares of cane have been seeded as well as another 10,000 in oul palm […]
by Rod Hughes
The recent documentary film “Sharkwater” that criticized the Costa Rican government’s inaction in curbing the cruel shark finning practice in its Pacific territorial waters first resulted in official denial and then a remarkably elegant solution.
Shark finning is mainly done by foreign commercial fishing […]
by Rod Hughes
Right Hand Ignoring Left Hand’s Actions Dept. As reported in La Nacion today, functionaries of the Central Pacific Conservation Area of the Environment Ministry thought they had stopped a project that would have destroyed a mangrove swamp in Parrita, Puntarenas province. But they found to their horror that […]
