r/BeAmazed • u/MambaMentality24x2 • Jul 28 '26
Nature Good news: Costa Rica brought its forests back 🌱
Costa Rica became the first tropical country to successfully reverse deforestation. After losing much of its forest cover to farming and cattle ranching, the country changed course through conservation efforts, protected areas, and programmes that encouraged landowners to protect forests.
Today, forests cover around 60% of Costa Rica again, turning a story of environmental destruction into one of the world’s most inspiring conservation successes.
A reminder that when nature is given a chance, it can recover.
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u/skoltroll Jul 28 '26
Tourism and ex-pats bring in more money than cattle ranchers
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u/Scientia_et_Fidem Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Immigrants and ex-pats are used to describe two different things. One plans to stay permanently and the other does not, it has nothing to do with who is going to which country. Please take 30 seconds to google the uses before complaining.
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u/ExiledCanuck Jul 29 '26
I moved from North America to Central America. I’m an immigrant here. The amount of people who have moved to this country, permanently, and call themselves “ex-pats” instead of immigrants, especially retirees, also from North America, is like 90% of them. It’s very annoying to see and hear.
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u/hopelesscaribou Jul 29 '26
Unlike many immigrants, 'ex-pats' never give up their original citizenship, nor do they apply for Costa Rican citizenship. They are also not typically there to work, as even the digital nomads work for companies back home.
As I see it, Ex-Pats are the have your cake and eat it crowd, mostly retirees taking advantage of less developed economies while never giving up their privileges back home. Immigrants are seeking a new home and working and contributing to local society and their new country.
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u/ExiledCanuck Jul 29 '26
I’ve lived as an immigrant in two different countries tried now for different periods of my life. I’ve never known any immigrant who gave up their original citizenship. Most countries recognize multiple citizenships. Most of the “ex-pats” I know, are as far along as possible to be “permanent residents” where they live. (I don’t live in CR btw)
They just treat the word “immigrant” with disdain, like it’s a dirty word. And call them selves expats, even if this doesn’t apply to them, because maybe it makes them feel better. It’s weird, and ignorant.
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u/8647T4C0 Jul 28 '26
I never seen anybody calling a brown Mexican living in USA an "expat". Why do they call them immigrants then ? Has anybody asked them if they intend to stay permanently?
The only reason Americans came up with the dumb ex pat term is racism. They needed to differentiate themselves from brown people.
Funniest part is them not realizing that every single white American living in USA comes from a family of IMMIGRANTS, most likely European
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u/techdevjp Jul 29 '26
It's expat. One word. No space, no dash. It is short for expatriate. It's also a British term and not something invented by Americans.
Expats generally come from wealthy countries. Often (but not always!) wealthier than the country they have moved to. They may or may not be wealthy themselves, but often are. They don't generally integrate into the society of the country they have moved to. The move is often expected to be temporary in nature, but there are also very long term expats. There were a lot of British expats in Hong Kong, for example.
Immigrants are often people who move from developing countries to more developed countries. Sometimes they move between two fairly equally developed countries. Rarely do they move from a rich developed country to a poor developing country. The move is generally planned to be permanent in nature.
One person can be both. In the US, Peter Thiel is an immigrant. No doubt about it. But now in Argentina? He's an expat.
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u/Scientia_et_Fidem Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
Yes, immigrants. As in people who came and stayed permanently. Which is why their children are still living in the states.
You are literally proving my point. That is why they are immigrants, and a dude who works for Microsoft in Costa Rica for 5 years is an expat. Or a guy from Brazil who works in the US for 4 years for Pilgrim’s Pride is an expat. If they have legal paperwork stating it is a temporary stay to work for a company then they are an expat.
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u/DeyUrban Jul 29 '26
My sister has been living in the Netherlands for almost a decade, and identifies as an immigrant. Her Dutch in-laws constantly refer to her as an expat while shit-talk immigrants of a darker complexion. I’ve discussed this with other Europeans, and a Dane defended the distinction quite strongly. It’s definitely not just an American thing.
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u/CoastedCoyote Jul 28 '26
Then when people from Mexico come to the US during harvest season to work the fields, why do they call them immigrants? You might want to take that same 30 seconds and google the word Immigrant.
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u/Thickenun Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
I have always heard them referred to as migrant workers rather than immigrants. Immigrant suggests an intent to stay and put down roots. If you have heard any Americans using the latter term they are just plain wrong and probably trying to sell you on some nonsense.
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u/relationsdviceguy Jul 28 '26
I think immigrant is someone who plans on staying permanently.
An expat is someone who’s length of stay they don’t yet know.
So you could be a Filipino expat living in Spain or a Caucasian immigrant living in Thailand.
People really will get outraged at anything
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u/LimpAfternoon6878 Jul 28 '26
That's completely made up. Being an immigrant does not require permanent residence and being an expat does not imply temporary stay. The guy above you has it right, expats is mostly used to describe immigrants from Eurocentric countries. Try googling Filipino expat and see how many results actually use those words. Every result I'm seeing is referencing white people moving to the Philippines.
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u/Lost-In-The-Wilds Jul 28 '26
I just checked Miriam Webster.
IMMIGRANT: a person who comes to a country to take up permanent residence.
EXPATRIATE (Noun): a person who lives in a foreign country.
Expatriate can also imply giving up your allegiance to your former country. Similar to Emigrant, all it signifies is leaving your old country. It says nothing about where you're staying now or for how long. Also, Ex-Pat is mainly a British thing to say, but it sounds cool so I'm sure 'Muricans will swipe it if they can.
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u/techdevjp Jul 29 '26
I’ll be damned if I’ve ever heard an American, Canadian, or European refer to themselves as an immigrant when leaving their home country to take up residence elsewhere.
I'm a Canadian who was an expat in Japan for many years, but now considers himself an immigrant. I didn't intend to stay permanently but now I do. The reality has changed, so the term has changed.
Also, there is no hyphen or space in expat. It is short for expatriate. You're right that expats tend to come from wealthier countries. Many move to less wealthy countries, but one can be an expat anywhere.
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u/LimpAfternoon6878 Jul 29 '26
Hey, the more you know. Thanks. I have seen expat used pretty often in the US, especially in regards to places like Costa Rica and Colombia where a lot of Americans like to end up. The swiping has succeeded
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u/Linenoise77 Jul 28 '26
Traveling internationally, as an English speaker, the way I have always referred to people\heard them referred to was:
Expat-Someone who has been someplace for a length of time and integrated somewhat, but has not dropped connections to their home, and doesn't intend to stay
New- Someone who is expected to be there for a length of time, but hasn't really integrated at all.
Lives- Someone who now views that place as their "home"
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u/Vaiden_Kelsier Jul 29 '26
So let's start calling migrant workers then expats. That'd be logically sound then, correct?
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u/BusyEquipment529 Jul 28 '26
Its only immigrants when it's filthy browns infiltrating gods America obviously /s
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u/No-Bison-5397 Jul 28 '26
Ex-Pat describes a person in relation to the country they left, immigrants describes a person in relation to the country they arrived in. You have to be an immigrant to be an expatriate/emigrant/émigré/exile but they don’t all mean the same thing.
I think putting purely down to imperialism is probably a bit reductive and says more about you than whoever is using the term “ex-pat”.
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u/piesforall Jul 28 '26
You think you're being clever parroting a point that you've heard someone else make, but you have no idea what you're talking about.
I've been both an immigrant (refugee) and an ex-pat. The idea that these are two different words for the same experience is absurd.
As an immigrant, we were fleeing persecution in our country of birth. The US took us in as refugees when we had no money, spoke no English.
Over a decade later, I moved to the UK. I'm not all that keen on the US, but I'm certainly not fleeing anything. I have two master's degrees and a decent job. I'm a world away from the girl who couldn't understand a word of what her classmates said, whose family had to rely on the kindness of distant relatives to keep food in the fridge.
We use different words for the two experiences because they are different. It's not imperialist to say so.
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u/atyon Jul 28 '26
It's wild what happens when you make conservation profitable instead of just asking nicely lol
Well, that's why the big petroleum companies push personal responsibility and "carbon footprints" so hard: because it can't, didn't, and won't work.
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u/whitefoot Jul 28 '26
Really? Because I'm here right now. Visited Tamarindo, Monteverde, Manuel Antonio, San Jose, and now in La Fortuna. And I'd say it absolutely feels like at least 60%.
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u/Potato-in-ur-ass Jul 28 '26
Now they just have to teach Haiti.
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u/theaviationhistorian Jul 28 '26
I think they have more important issues to deal with right now. Protecting and regrowing the forests is extremely hard in a failed state.
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u/Jackieirish Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 31 '26
I could be misremembering the country on this, but I recently saw a PBS show about Costa Rica (I think) and a species of sea turtles that would beach there every year to lay their eggs.
At some point in the country's history, they tried to convert a large swath of rain forest to be used to raise cattle in an attempt to become more self-reliant on domestic beef.
It was around this time that the sea turtle population started to decline and researchers weren't really sure why.
Eventually, the cattle ranches disappeared and the rain forests began to reclaim the land. When the rain forests were established enough that they reached down to the beaches once again, the researchers began to see the sea turtles rebounding –even though the turtles had nothing to do with the rain forests themselves!
What was going on?
Apparently: Jaguars.
Jaguars live in the jungle and pretty much stay there except when they venture out into other areas to hunt. When the rain forests were stripped away from the shore, the jaguars stayed inland and the beaches where the sea turtles nested were open territory for all manner of smaller predators to go after the eggs/baby turtles. But when the rainforest reached down to the shore again, the jaguars would come out, eat some predators, disturb some nests (but not nearly as much as the other predators), and generally keep the beach clear for the turtles to do their thing.
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u/Ill-Tea9411 Jul 28 '26
Good for them, that they know how to do this, because they will have to keep doing it.
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u/Terny Jul 28 '26
It's an uphill battle. I live here and because of its popularity and private property loopholes we now have foreigners pouring millions and millions of dollars into real estate development in the most beautiful areas.
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u/Ill-Tea9411 Jul 28 '26
It will only be anther 20 years or so and then deadly wet bulb events will start killing the human residents of Costa Rica, and those real estate developments will be reclaimed by the jungle.
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u/theaviationhistorian Jul 28 '26
If a wet bulb event happens, it would be catastrophic for the forest as well. It also kills off other warm blooded creatures. And they don't have the fortune of evacuating by sea or air like humans. And cold blooded creatures can also have body function failures or death by overheating.
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u/Proof_Lengthiness185 Jul 28 '26
I've never heard or even considered that cold-bloods would be affected by wet bulb events.
Thanks for the nugget!
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u/Ill-Tea9411 Jul 29 '26
Temperature and humidity so high that a body can not cool itself. This condition makes it so sweat can not evaporate. 95 degrees F at 100% humidity is fatal in just a few hours.
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u/FlaccidCatsnark Jul 28 '26
If that's not the definition of late-stage capitalism...
- find places where people work hard to create something beautiful
- move in, take it away, profit.
See the story in my other reply in this thread for a better ending... so far.
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u/FlaccidCatsnark Jul 28 '26
Here's a similar success story I just watched. God bless the local folk who know where true value lies, and how to protect it.
How A Tiny Mexican Village Created The Greatest Marine Recovery Ever Recorded
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u/skankassful Jul 28 '26
The administrations responsible for this are long gone and the current ones side with foreign investment groups to illegally deforest protected areas or somehow get greenlit to build these mega projects that destroy the same lands they worked so hard to bring back. We’ve abandoned conservation efforts and pulled out of many green energy projects over the last couple of years to appease the foreign interests. Damn shame since we were once the global leaders of green energy implementation and conservation efforts.
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u/Current_Finding_4066 Jul 28 '26
A step in ther right direction. But biodiversity or greatness of it is only of fraction
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u/Savings_Trip_248 Jul 28 '26
still nice to see proof that damage isnt always permanent even if theres more work to do
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u/Current_Finding_4066 Jul 28 '26
Damage might well be permanent
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u/workshop_prompts Jul 28 '26
You're being downvoted bu you're not wrong at all. It's impossible to instantly restore the ecology of a mature forest.
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u/Current_Finding_4066 Jul 28 '26
True. We will not live to see it recover to biodiversity of forests that were not cleared. This is why we get Trump. People vote with feelings instead of logic
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u/Funkeslapp Jul 28 '26
Ergo, let's do nothing.
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u/workshop_prompts Jul 28 '26
That isn’t what I said at all. This is a good first step and will provide valuable habitat for a lot of organisms, but there are ecological relationships between rarer species that can’t be easily reestablished by just planting.
It takes an immense amount of work to reestablish even a small amount of the biodiversity that exists in mature forests, and then time.
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u/xteve Jul 28 '26
"Permanent" is relative. South America was heavily populated when the first Europeans arrived. We've learned from lidar imaging that the journals of Orellana's exploration were not fictional. Those advanced civilizations disappeared into what we now call the Amazon Rain Forest.
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u/round-earth-theory Jul 28 '26
It's also relative in the sense that these rainforests would have been another climate entirely if you rewind far enough.
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u/CauliflowerFlimsy746 Jul 28 '26
Costa Rica holds about 5% of global biodiversity covering just 0.03% of Earth's land area. I think we're good in that front.
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u/OkVariety8064 Jul 28 '26
But with those numbers, even a small change in either direction has a large impact on global biodiversity.
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u/oneiross Jul 28 '26
The sad news is that we elected twice in a row a right-wing conservative populist government, and as with all of them, they only care about money and are selling off protected areas to conglomerates (or to the president friends) so they can build hotels while cutting down trees without the proper permits.
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u/OkVariety8064 Jul 28 '26
I don't think we can blame the right wing takeover just on social media. The problem is that the world over left wing parties are not providing answers to the worries people have. Right wing extremists capitalize on this weakness, because the left wing offers so many easy opportunities for them to score goals.
If you look at opinion polls (at least in Europe) it's not hard to see what people want from left wing parties: Good public services, moderate cultural tolerance and less immigration. What the left wing offers instead is more neoliberal service cuts but with more hypocrisy, zero-tolerance zealotry to anyone who misspells a single pronoun on their progressive agenda, and an obsessive focus on flooding the country with immigration.
The left parties have decided that appealing to the demands of extreme progressive zealots on social media (designed to amplify such minority viewpoints) is more important than addressing the issues something like 80% of the people agree on. So the people look at the left wing parties, wonder what is wrong with them, and vote for the right wingers who at least don't mock their key concerns.
The end result is always the same, right-wing slash-and-burn economics, destroying the environment and dismantling public services. Worsening climate change and loss of what little biodiversity we have left. But the left wingers don't even care about the elections, because winning some purity test extreme progressive argument on the social media controlled by right wing billionaires is more important than winning elections.
I can't speak to the political situation in other parts of the world, but at least in Europe, the left wing parties did this to themselves. If the progressives weren't so obsessed over what Twitter and Facebook prop up as left-wing issues, they could actually win elections.
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u/GoForBaskets Jul 28 '26
If you take a long nap in Costa Rica plants start to grow on you and birds nest in your hair.
It is a paradise, but the fact that it is almost the perfect environment for growth really helps.
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u/theaviationhistorian Jul 28 '26
Every time I read something about Costa Rica, it is almost always good news (as long as people respect rip tides, RIP Malcom-Jamal Warner). I have an amazing respect for Costa Rica and for them knowing that their biggest national value is their natural resources!
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u/heissenberggg Jul 29 '26
Unfortunately our current government is selling protected areas to the president's friends, typical third world corruption.
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u/BrocoliAssassin Jul 28 '26
It's amazing what you can do when you don't base everything on shareholder profits and trillions in wasteful military spending on zionist wars.
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u/theprofiteer Jul 28 '26
I was just at that waterfall last week, it's the waterfall at Arenal volcano. It's absolutely beautiful there, gorgeous rainforest.
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u/disoluta Jul 28 '26
dont look the case on playa panama, or papagayo, or what just happened on manzanillo. cr is a scam im sorry it just falled a lot on the Yale Environmental Performance Index https://epi.yale.edu/indicator/2026/EPI this is all about so you all can come and feel good about something. like this post. also because of water is obvious that data centers are lurking these territories ¯_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
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u/johanista Jul 29 '26
Sadly the current fascist government is destroying all that progress in favor of drug cartels and personal gain
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u/fan_tas_tic Jul 28 '26
This sounds good on the surface level, but you cannot replace an ancient rainforest with trees. It takes a lot of time for the flora and fauna to reoccupy the land where they used to thrive.
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u/DutchieTalking Jul 28 '26
It's a fantastic start. It's at least giving that biodiversity a chance.
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u/Quitcha_Bitchin Jul 28 '26
"On the surface level"? The Flora does not grow without the trees, the fauna won't come until there is flora to forage. It is the first giant step to revitalization of an almost dead ecosystem.
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u/vikster1 Jul 28 '26
glas always half empty response.
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u/fan_tas_tic Jul 29 '26
It's the "do not cut down rainforests because they are irreplaceable" response. I have worked on reforestation and support these projects. BUT, they only exist because ancient forests were destroyed to pave the way for cattle farming, palm oil, and you name it. It's a thousand times better to protect our forests than to do reforestation where everything is dead.
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u/Buzz_Killington_III Jul 28 '26
It's best possible change that can happen at this point, so it sounds good on EVERY level.
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u/Gnome-Phloem Jul 28 '26
Who makes these? The pictures with text at the bottom? Sometimes a few of the words are colored. They're all the same style, and it's kinda new. Not how memes and news were shared back in my youth.
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u/HighTurning Jul 28 '26
Now we are going back in time and errasing all the progress, thanks to super corrupt government.
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u/Sysilith Jul 28 '26
I always wondered if that is possible, beautiful to see it happening.
A great reminder, that despite the situation being fucked, we can fix it.
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u/Tehquilamockingbirb Jul 28 '26
I had my wedding in Costa Rica 5 years ago and the forest was right up to the hotel and even over the rooftops. The whole top half of the resort was lush and teeming with howler monkeys just swaying and gliding from tree to tree.
There's nothing like a forest experience in Costa Rica.
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u/geeves_007 Jul 28 '26
Yeah, but how many billionaires did they create in that same timespan? I thought so...
Obviously it would be better to have like 2 or 3 guys with billions of dollars instead of whatever this is!
/s
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u/Samwise_the_Tall Jul 28 '26
Let this be a reminder to all on what are the biggest contributing factors for deforestation: eating cows and using palm oil. Try to prioritize more local sources of all products and limit your use of meat as much as possible.
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u/Emergency-Bonus-9709 Jul 28 '26
Disbanding their armed forces and funnelling their tax dollars into education (free school/university) sure helped.
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u/LIFEBYTHERIVER-152 Jul 28 '26
Has Costa Rica stopped the trade in shark fins?
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u/heissenberggg Jul 29 '26
No our current government is right wing so no, protecting fauna is not their priority.
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u/ANGRY_ASPARAGUS Jul 28 '26 edited Jul 28 '26
It's pretty amazing to watch was has happened to Costa Rica over the last four decades in terms of its development. It really is starting to seem like it's pulling ahead in Central America in many ways.
I went for the first time in 2024 to the Puntarenas region / Santa Teresa Beach... just wow. Some of the best sand and beaches, warm and clear water, tropical greenery and colors, fresh fruits and produce, friendly people, etc. The government was paving all the roads in there too, it was so much fun to drive and explore in that part of the country as well. Quepos and Manuel Antonio National Park were just awesome as well. Absolutely loved Costa Rica, I cannot wait to go back one day.
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u/Ragnar_Lodbrok_3000 Jul 28 '26
I Love Costa Rica... I was of vacations 2 years ago and I believe that it is the Best country around the World: his People and naturalize are beautiful 🤩
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u/testtdk Jul 29 '26
That’s great, but let’s not forget the true scale of the problem. Costa Rica is tiny and STOPPED deforestation forty years ago.
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u/TimeWarrior3030 Jul 29 '26
I hope Australia takes note because the massive amount of deforestation and natural habit destruction happening there is out of control!
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u/KindnessComesBack2U Jul 29 '26
I’d love to have seen an article describing where and how this is happening. The OSA is probably one of the bigger areas of reforestation, no? The conservation group there is doing phenomenal work.
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u/AssistanceDizzy9236 Jul 29 '26
Also the cars have doubled. Do not come here gringos, stay in Burger Land please.
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u/skylercollins Jul 29 '26
I'm sure this is what's best for the very poor people in Costa Rica.
I'm sure all of us rich first-worlders are so happy that something like this is happening to a place we've never been and will probably never go.
Duh.
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u/shillyshally Jul 29 '26
Brought back 60%, not all of it. Still, great news since it was down to 20% of what had been there.
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u/boa_instructor Jul 29 '26
A lot of this is green washing PR for the country. The reality is that they still bend over for wealthy developers and foreigners.
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u/Mental-Report-3274 Jul 29 '26
It's a beautiful country, safe, high health expectancy, and really friendly people. They fought against socialism/communism strongly while their neighbor is struggling still. They have had decades of strong democracy.
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u/zzupdown Jul 29 '26
China is essentially doing the same thing with their great green wall, planting 66 billion trees to stop the spread of the Gobi and Taklamakan deserts.
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u/Kanthalas Jul 29 '26
So if Haiti does this and doubles their Rainforest cover... lets see 0% x 2 is... Well fuck.
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u/nesfor Jul 29 '26
A lot of people ended up planting non-native eucalyptus and bamboo because they grow quickly and could get them the government incentives 😅 Costa Rica has a lot of impressive statistics, but of course the truth of this (or any) country is a mixed bag.
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u/Mediocre_Plantain180 Jul 29 '26
I thought I read an article about how we have more trees now than the earth naturally had ever before and the over density of our man made forests were harming wildlife more than we thought.
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u/fgnrtzbdbbt Jul 29 '26
This is possible when there are still pristine areas around that can serve as "seeds" for the rainforest
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u/DRUGMUSIC_ Jul 29 '26
we need to share this message as it is a positive message and should motivate other institutions to do the same.
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u/Fluid-Row-883 Jul 29 '26
That’s great! Now they should focus on the overfishing happening off their shores that supports human slavery in international waters and mass execution of sharks and other really important sea animals.
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u/ks8381553 Jul 29 '26
Omg this is the hope we need in this messed up world. Well done Costa Rica 🙌 if only other much wealthier countries cared about protecting their beautiful natural spaces half as much.
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u/Erl129 Jul 30 '26
I love how something beautiful can set off a tirade of anger on Reddit. I mean I’m here for it but got bored with the immigrant expat battle.… I must say this made me smile and gave a glimpse of hope things like this are possible if given the chance. Our planet takes a beating and it’s empowering to see that things can get better if we’re accountable and willing to change.
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u/blazbluecore Jul 30 '26
Dw yall, just give the trees a few years and they’ll also grow back around your house and vegetation will take over your house as well.
People acting like nature isn’t self perpetuating 😂
“Omg.. all the trees grew back! Can’t believe it!!”
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u/FederalPossibility73 Jul 30 '26
One day I hope the forests consume us all! 💚
Jokes aside I do love seeing more trees.
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u/Doublestackranch88 Jul 30 '26
What about all the land they consumed for the massive foundations for wind turbines?
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u/CreepySatisfaction8 Jul 31 '26
Costa Rica’s forests and biodiversity is being threatened by two consecutive far-right governments who don’t care about protecting the environment or becoming carbon neutral. Costa Rica, considered for many years a country committed to health and environment protection, is slowly walking backwards because of a government that wants to sell our lands to build expensive hotels most Costa Rican can’t even dream of visiting. Protect Costa Rica ❤️🩹
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u/InanisNoctisLupus Aug 02 '26
We're also selling it to the highest bidder, our goverment is a total joke and is giving it away to build big hotels next to beaches AND next to all this biodiversity. Millions of animals lifes have and will be taken by these assholes. Not to mention the gentrification.
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