Costa Rica has doubled its tropical rainforests in just a few decades. Here’s how

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Years of unchecked logging laid waste to two-thirds of Costa Rica’s tree canopy, leaving its tropical rainforests facing an uncertain future. But the trees have returned and the resurrected forests support a thriving eco-tourism industry.

Towards the middle of the 20th century, indigenous woodland – predominantly tropical rainforest – covered all but a quarter of the country. But then the loggers arrived. The forests were cleared as crews of lumberjacks freely converted Costa Rica’s natural resources into profits.

By the early 1980s, the destruction of two-thirds of the forests had ravaged the habitats of indigenous creatures such as the golden toad and poison dart frog.

[size=1.125]Following decades of decline, an unusual thing happened. The rate of deforestation slowed and eventually dropped to zero, and over time the trees began to return.

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What caused this dramatic reversal of fortune?

[size=1.125]The simple answer is that Costa Rica began to realize the potential of its rich ecosystems and set about safeguarding them.

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[size=1.125]link: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/06/costa-rica-has-doubled-its-tropical-rainforests-in-just-a-few-decades-here-s-how?fbclid=IwAR2YcMQxqkDvJzsa_CTQzdgz9DyoDV6XlFRRJi8YtdI8-GasNtNL1sXZP5s

abhidebb

Great initiative taken by Costa Rica. We must follow such examples. Wonderful article.

asr335704

If there is a will, there is a way. This is well implemented by Costa Rica. Hope other countries will take a lesson from it and move forward in right direction.

pvk_udt

Need of the hour for our country. We should actively follow such drastic measures to save and regenerate our forests

Akm1001

Aptly said by asr335704...where there is will, there is a way...