With over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and
other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the
green republic." In this very readable history of conservation in
Costa Rica, Sterling Evans explores the establishment of the
country's national park system as a response to the rapid
destruction of its tropical ecosystems due to the expansion of
export-related agriculture.
Drawing on interviews with key players in the conservation
movement, as well as archival research, Evans traces the emergence
of a conservation ethic among Costa Ricans and the tangible forms
it has taken. In Part I, he describes the development of the
national park system and "the grand contradiction" that
conservation occurred simultaneously with massive deforestation in
unprotected areas. In Part II, he examines other aspects of Costa
Rica's conservation experience, including the important roles
played by environmental education and nongovernmental
organizations, campesino and indigenous movements, ecotourism, and
the work of the National Biodiversity Institute.
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