Behind you rises a dense rainforest, where white-faced capuchin monkeys jump from branch to branch. Welcome to Costa Rica. I grew up in Costa Rica, and while I’ve lived all over the U.S., I'm ...

In Costa Rica, the rainforests are being conserved through National Park designation. Small-scale tourism is a sustainable use, but this brings in little revenue. In Talamanca, sustainable farming ...

The Children’s Eternal Rainforest, or Bosque Eterno de los Niños, is a 55,000-acre private nature reserve in Costa Rica. In 1987, a group of Swedish schoolchildren learned about the rain forest.