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Latest from Costa Rica

The world's oldest sea turtle conservation group, safeguarding turtles from its historic Tortuguero research station.

66yearsYears of continuous sea turtle conservation
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Monteverde Conservation League (Asociación Conservacionista de Monteverde)

Protecting Costa Rica's Children's Eternal Rainforest

Forests

A Costa Rican NGO built from schoolchildren's fundraising protects the country's largest private cloud forest reserve.

22.6khectaresProtected cloud forest (Children's Eternal Rainforest)
1.6MtreesTrees planted by the League
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Hammerheads swim a 700-kilometre corridor between Cocos and the Galápagos twice a year; the tags proving it turned an invisible migration into a protected route.

1,519animalsIndividual animals tracked with satellite and acoustic tags
240ksquare kilometresArea of the Cocos-Galapagos Swimway
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