The tropical dry forest native to the lower elevations of Guanacaste and the Nicoya Peninsula nearly all went through the typical progression referred to as “improvement.” The commercially valuable lumber was removed by clear cutting and everything remaining burned to open new fields.  Sometimes peasant farmers (campesinos) used it for a few years as small [...]

The Cloud Forest

Costa Rican Cloud Forests     
One of the most unique environments in the world survives on Costa Rica’s mountaintops-at least for the moment.  Cloud forests like Monteverde’s are formed by a combination of wind and geography (individual cloud forest descriptions are listed in the menu to the left).
When tradewinds flow from the northeast across the [...]

The Golden Toad once occupied a small area in Northern Costa Rica in The Cloud Forest knowas the Monteverde Cloud Forest Preserve. The male toad are a very striking orange cobration, and the females are black with scarlet blotches edged in yellow.

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