Costa Rica is a paradise for nature lovers, with its stunning landscapes and vibrant wildlife. While the country’s rich biodiversity is one of its biggest attractions, it’s important to be ...

From thick, tangled rainforest and active volcanoes to monkeys, coatis and tapirs, this is a country with plenty to discover ...

A ‘cloud forest’ is a rare rainforest with low-level clouds that gives the illusion of walking through layers upon layers of ...

Today we meet the striped hog-nosed skunk, a little-known species that inhabits forests throughout Costa Rica. The striped hog-nosed skunk (Conepatus semistriatus) is known as the zorro hediondo ...

That exact description would also fit the nine other species of nightjars in Costa Rica. Take a look at the nightjar page in your Costa Rica bird book. Properly identifying the common pauraque amongst ...

Blend most wanted to see some of Costa Rica’s wildlife, and she wasn’t disappointed. The rewards for a self-described “bio nerd” included glimpses of spider monkeys, sloths and a long ...

The brightly coloured balsa-wood masks are ubiquitous in the country, and of enormous significance to the indigenous people ...

White-faced capuchin monkeys in Costa Rica who experienced more intense physiological responses to mild droughts were more ...

“In Costa Rica, practically everything is trafficked here,” says Zúñiga.“There have already been 200 complaints this year of what is animal trafficking”; The hierarch said about the data ...