#environmentandwildlife — Public Fediverse posts
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Costa Rica Film Highlights Osa Community Protecting Pumas and Tapirs
A new documentary is drawing attention to a rare conservation story on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula, where a rural community near Corcovado National Park has gone from hunting wildlife for survival to protecting some of the country’s most iconic animals. Living with Pumas and Tapirs, produced by BirdnWild, profiles Rincón de San Josecito, a community […]
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Costa Rica Sloth Groups Expose Florida Animal Death Scandal
It was marketed as a place where sloths would live their “slowest, happiest lives.” In reality, Sloth World Orlando became something closer to a death facility, and it took two small nonprofit organizations based in Costa Rica to force the world to pay attention. The story begins with a commercial attraction that never actually opened […]
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https://ticotimes.net/2026/05/15/costa-rica-sloth-groups-expose-florida-animal-death-scandal
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Guanacaste Forest Fires Break Costa Rica’s 2024 Record
Guanacaste is facing one of the most severe forest fire seasons Costa Rica has ever recorded, with the province alone now reporting more fires in 2026 than the entire country registered during 2024, the previous record year for this type of emergency. The area has recorded 144 forest fires so far this year, while Costa […]
The post Guanacaste Forest Fires Break Costa Ri [...]#EnvironmentAndWildlife #Featured #News
https://ticotimes.net/2026/05/13/guanacaste-forest-fires-break-costa-ricas-2024-record
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Coral Conservation Effort Begins on Costa Rica’s Caribbean Coast
Costa Rica’s southern Caribbean coast is moving into the center of a new community-led coral conservation effort, with a workshop aimed at training local residents to monitor and protect reef ecosystems in Talamanca. The free program combines virtual sessions during May with field work at sea between late May and June. More than 150 people […]
The post Coral C [...]#EnvironmentAndWildlife #Featured #News
https://ticotimes.net/2026/05/12/coral-conservation-effort-begins-on-costa-ricas-caribbean-coast
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Happy International Sloth Day! Let’s celebrate our friend the sloth
Sloths are some of the most interesting animals to have ever graced the earth, and yet they remain quite the unknowable little critters. The group that contains sloths, Xenarthrans, began evolving [...]
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