Corcovado National Park, Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica
This morning, at our arrival to San Pedrillo Ranger Station, a flock of 12 scarlet macaws surprised us. Later two out of three groups saw the extremely elusive Great Curassow. The second group saw a Spider monkey. The third group, in company of Julio Fernandez, a Costa Rican naturalist and historian, found the owl shown in the picture: the Crested Owl.
All of this animals sightings have something in common: they are only possible in areas where the forest haven’t been disturbed for a long time and they are large enough to sustain a viable population of these animals.
Corcovado National Reserve is one of the few areas around Central America where you still having a chance to see animals only found in vast and old forest.
The fragmentation of the jungles isolate the animals that later will suffer of lack of resources to survive or genetic diseases as a result of the interbreeding.
Vast and old areas of jungles are extremely important on the preservation of the entire network of life that crosses the Central American isthmus.
The new concept developed by the Costa Rican environmental authorities is the Biological Corridors. Biological corridors formed by newly protected areas linking many national parks will guarantee the continuous flow of plant and animals resulting in a healthy biodiversity of the neotropics and the world.
This morning, at our arrival to San Pedrillo Ranger Station, a flock of 12 scarlet macaws surprised us. Later two out of three groups saw the extremely elusive Great Curassow. The second group saw a Spider monkey. The third group, in company of Julio Fernandez, a Costa Rican naturalist and historian, found the owl shown in the picture: the Crested Owl.
All of this animals sightings have something in common: they are only possible in areas where the forest haven’t been disturbed for a long time and they are large enough to sustain a viable population of these animals.
Corcovado National Reserve is one of the few areas around Central America where you still having a chance to see animals only found in vast and old forest.
The fragmentation of the jungles isolate the animals that later will suffer of lack of resources to survive or genetic diseases as a result of the interbreeding.
Vast and old areas of jungles are extremely important on the preservation of the entire network of life that crosses the Central American isthmus.
The new concept developed by the Costa Rican environmental authorities is the Biological Corridors. Biological corridors formed by newly protected areas linking many national parks will guarantee the continuous flow of plant and animals resulting in a healthy biodiversity of the neotropics and the world.
