February 8th, 2010, author : Victor C. Krumm
Like so many of the planet’s greatest accomplishments, it began with an observation, so simple one wonders why nobody saw it earlier and so powerful it is still changing the world. It started with a unique man on a desolate but beautiful mountain called the Matterhorn. The world’s first eco tourist was Theodore Roosevelt and what we call “eco tourism” today leads thousands of people a year to a small sapphire named by Christopher Columbus five centuries ago: Costa Rica, the “rich coast.”
About 20 years before he was destined to become known as one of America’s finest presidents, Roosevelt traveled to Switzerland. He was already one of the earth’s most famous outdoorsmen who loved nature. So it was that the great man chose to conquer the famed Mount Matterhorn. When he did so, however, he ended up being chagrined by what he found on the mountain or, more accurately, what he didn’t.
The mountain was almost silent. Where once there had been many, there were no bears, wolves, goats, mountain sheep, or other wilderness creatures. Only ghosts of the past richness. But only memories. Read more...
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February 3rd, 2010, author : Victor Krumm
With out a doubt, Costa Rica is a beautiful, breathtaking nation as well as a top tourist destination. A lot of people, though, have never discovered its biological gem, Corcovado National Park. This teeny park covers only 100,000 acres (about 42,000 hectares) in the Osa Peninsula, situated along the southern Pacific coast of Costa Rica, and guards eight exceptional habitats. It is unlike virtually anywhere else on the planet and the largest remaining primary forest in Central America.
As Christopher Columbus explored the Americas in 1502 he sailed the Caribbean from Mexico south to a place he named ‘Costa Rica’, the ‘rich coast’. The name stuck. Fabulous tropical forests covered the land from the Atlantic to the Pacific and there were so many marine turtles that at times mariners, lost in the fog, located land by listening to the sounds of thousands of marine reptiles paddling in to nesting beaches. Unfortunately, the passing of 500 years hasn’t been generous to either the forests or wildlife and these days many of the primary forests from Mexico to South America can be found destroyed for logging and farming or even burned. Happily, Costa Rica possessed the good sense to protect Corcovado. Read more...
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