Positive news from Costa Rica
Costa Rica’s Shark Finning Ban Signed By President ChinchillaCosta Rica passed a blanket ban on shark finning, in which the fins are sliced off sharks, often while they are alive, before the fish are thrown back into the ocean to die.
"Costa Rica may set an example to the world when it comes to environmental protection, but it must be noted that we had a significant lag when it comes to protecting the oceans,"
- President Laura Chinchilla |
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Costa Rica’s Shark Finning Ban Signed By President ChinchillaCosta Rica passed a blanket ban on shark finning, in which the fins are sliced off sharks, often while they are alive, before the fish are thrown back into the ocean to die. |
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Jaguar conservation gets a boost in North and Central America
Jaguar conservation has received a huge boost in the past few months both in Latin America and in the U.S. An historic agreement singed between the world's leading wild cat conservation organization Panthera and the government of Costa Rica in addition to a new U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) proposal bring renewed hope to the efforts to revive the iconic jaguar in its current habitat and return the cats to the American Southwest.
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YouTube-assembled orchestra plays Carnegie Hall to sold-out crowdThey came from 33 countries to achieve Internet history and answer the age-old question, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" |
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Green gauntlet
Costa Rica sets itself 'huge' carbon neutral target
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Regrowing the rainforestRainforests of Costa Rica - Half a century after most of Costa Rica's rainforests were cut down, researchers from the Boyce Thompson Institute took on a project that many thought was impossible - restoring a tropical rainforest ecosystem. |
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Rare Leatherback Turtles Gain Protection in Costa RicaPlaya Grande, Costa Rica - As dawn breaks on Playa Grande, the light reveals shallow sand pits where leatherback sea turtles laid their eggs the night before. |
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Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the SkyGrenoble, France - Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from falling raindrops into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other electronics devices. |
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Costa Rica gets forest fund boostThe US and conservation groups will cut $26m (£12.8m) from Costa Rican debt in return for the country spending the same sum on forest protection. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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News from Central America
- Costa Rica’s Shark Finning Ban Signed By President Chinchilla
- Jaguar conservation gets a boost in North and Central America
- Herp paradise preserved in Guatemala
- How rainwater harvesting is helping Nicaraguan farmers
- Honduras Creates national shark sanctuary
- Protecting villagers from deadly mudslides
- Pneumonia vaccine ‘to save thousands of lives’
- Central America Taps Volcanoes For Electricity
- Appreciation finds no language barriers during Continuing Promise
- Maya nut changes lives while aiding the rain forest