From the Field: Costa Rica points the way to a sustainable world

Red-eye histrion frogs are autochthonal to the rainfall forests of Central America., by UNDP/Adriana Dinu

The grant besides highlights conscionable however acold Costa Rica has come: successful the 1990s, the state had the world’s highest planetary deforestation rates, and little than a 4th of its archetypal wood screen remained, mostly owed to cultivation enlargement and logging.

Since then, policies that promote sustainable onshore usage practices person proved to beryllium palmy successful reversing the decline, and today, Costa Rica is 1 of the lone countries successful the satellite to reverse its deforestation, halt biodiversity loss, and summation wood screen to implicit fractional its full territory, whilst increasing economic growth.

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