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We believe it important to provide our customers with information about the importance of ecotourism worldwide and practices that took place in Costa Rica to promote it.
Ecotourism in Costa Rica allows biodiversity preservation and care of the natural resources of the country, a practice in harmony with nature and the environment
Ecotourism is tourism with minimal impact on the environment. This activity produces significant income in the developing country, which help protect important natural areas and also benefits the people, helping them to reduce their dependence on other economic activities that could harm nature. Fortunately, Costa Rica, the birthplace of ecotourism, is also a place where this activity has reached its highest level of performance and success. This natural paradise has extensive experience showing its wonderful natural resources of tens of thousands of visitors every year. Costa Rica is a small country of great scenic beauty and natural wealth that has an area of 51,100 square kilometers. In this piece of land which represents only 0.3% of the total surface of the planet, is hosting the 5% of the global biodiversity has more bird species than the United States and more variety of butterflies throughout Africa , acts for which the Central American nation of 4 million people has earned international recognition justified. In its various habitats and ecosystems coexist 13,000 plant species, two thousand species of moths and 4,500 diurnal species, 163 species of amphibians, 220 reptiles, 1,600 fish in fresh and salt water and at least 870 species of birds. In this large natural scenery, Costa Rica also has various types such as deciduous forest, mangroves, rainforests, lagoons herbaceous, cloud forests, moors, yolillales, oak, riparian forests and swamp forests. But the natural scenery does not end there, as there are other areas of great interest and beauty such as volcanoes, many of them active with hot springs and caves, as well as pre-Columbian settlements of great importance for the study of the archeology of Mesoamerica, which are part of the vast system of National Parks (22) National Wildlife Refuges (10) Biological Reserves (12), Forest Reserves (8) and Protected Zones (26) which in total cover 25% of the national territory. At present, the State tries to rescue and preserve this profuse nature through the creation of sustainable development policies that promote appropriate use of natural resources.
