Nature Air

Frank Paladino Ph.D. has devoted years to the study of Leatherback sea turtles in Costa Rica and all over the world. He now adds his voice to the many conservationists strongly opposed to downgrading Las Baulas National Park and threatening the survival of these magnificent creatures. Frank is a distinguished professor in the Department of [...]

Dr. Richard LaVal received an email from Alvaro Ugalde with the Voice of the Leatherback Turtles attached. He read the magazine and immediately sent a letter to the Legiislative Assembly on behalf of Las Baulas National Park and the Leatherbacks. In addition, he forwarded the magazine to colleagues and friends and provided his own introduction. [...]

What is it about preserving nature in its most pristine state that is important to us? The world existed long before we ever laid our eyes upon a magnificent crimson sunset. The geysers of Yellowstone bellowed forth their molten hot water a million years before it was declared the first national park anywhere in the [...]

The Comptroller General of Costa Rica has submitted a report to the Special Standing Committee on the Environment which fires an explosive broadside into the government plan to downgrade Las Baulas National Park to a wildlife refuge, thereby threatening the existence of the critically endangered Leatherback sea turtle. According to Article 183 of the Constitution, [...]

An extraordinary thing happened in Costa Rica on December 1, 1948 after a successful revolution against anti-progressive forces. José Figueres Ferrer abolished the Costa Rican Army. The photograph of Costa Rica’s Man of the Century, Don Pepe, taking a hammer to the wall of the Cuartel Bellavista became the symbol of an act that changed this [...]

Another voice and another threat to Costa Rica’s Leatherback sea turtle has been added to the chorus of opposition to the proposed plan to downgrade Las Baulas National Park to a wildlife refuge. Todd Steiner is the Executive Director of the Turtle Island Restoration Network and he warns about the dire effects of climate change on [...]

For All Time is a twenty year old, award-winning documentary, addressing the urgency for creating the Las Baulas Marine Park. This video is timeless, primarily because absolutely nothing seems to have changed in the two decades since. Inaction is a co-conspirator with time, and both are mortal enemies to the preservation of the natural environment.  [...]

Another international conservationist speaks out against the Costa Rican government’s plan to downgrade Las Baulas Marine Park, home to the critically endangered Leatherback sea turtle. Julian Bakker is a retired Dutch lawyer who has spent the last ten years on environmental conservation projects in Colombia and later in Costa Rica. He represents the Environmental Association [...]