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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 [...]

International conservationists continue to protest Costa Rica’s plan to downgrade Las Baulas Marine Park, threatening the very existence of the ancient, Leatherback sea turtle. The country’s national park system anchors the billion dollar a year tourism industry and compromising it will undermine this vital economic sector, not to mention its global status as a bastion [...]

The pre-eminent scholar in the world of turtles, Dr. Peter C.H. Pritchard, has added his precious voice to the resounding chorus opposed to President Arias’ incredibly ill thought out plan of downgrading Parque Nacional las Baulas. Dr. Pritchard has devoted his life to the study of these timeless creatures and nearly twenty years ago, he established [...]

The political response to the simmering controversy over the proposed dismemberment of Las Baulas National Marine Park comes as no surprise. It is the job of all political subordinates, regardless of country or circumstance, to support their leader. In this case, it is Jorge Rodriguez, Minister of MINAET, Costa Rica’s Environment, Energy and Telecommunications Ministry. [...]

Conservation organizations and conservationists from inside and outside Costa Rica have become a chorus of outrage against the threatened destruction of Las Baulas National Park and the Leatherback turtle nesting areas within its borders. Internationally renowned institutions have been communicating directly with the Costa Rican government and individual champions for conservation have been making their [...]

The threat to Las Baulas National Park continues and Nature Blog has joined forces with PRETOMA, a Costa Rican organization with incredible marine conservation credentials. We strongly encourage you to visit their web site and learn more about their important work.   PRETOMA promoted a rally this past Saturday, July 25th, in Nicoya. We will see [...]

We are privileged to be sharing an open letter in defense of Costa Rica’s national park system. It is authored by three of the most influential people in the country in terms of their extraordinary individual contributions to the establishment of the park system. We already introduced you to Alvaro Ugalde and Mario Boza in [...]