Costa
Rica Eco Report,
November 2008
by Alberto Herrera,
Eco Director
Every year at Crocodile Bay Resort, we insure that when our yearly
clients return, that they will find many pleasant new surprises,
that were not available on their past trips. The following are
some of our new tours we have created
specifically for this reason;
The
New Monkey Tour
The New World Monkeys are split into three families. The largest
and most diverse family, with more than 30 species, is the Cebidae,
which includes the four monkeys found in Costa Rica. Crocodile
Bay Resort is located on the Osa Peninsula,
in the southern zone of Costa Rica. This
is the only place in the country than you can find all the four
Costa Ricans monkeys species together such as the Mantled Howler
Monkey, White-Throated Capuchin Monkey, Spider Monkey and Central
America Squirrel Monkey.
At
present, more than a third of the world’s primate species
are listed as threatened by the International Union for the Conservation
of Nature (IUCN), and about one in seven are in imminent danger
of disappearing. This tour was created specifically for those
who want to focus on these amazing species of monkeys in their
natural habitat, but perhaps choose not to take the entire Rainforest
Hike due to physical restrictions or time restraints.
Tour
Details: Leaves at 8:00 am and returns by 11:30 am
Osa
Palmas Canopy Tour
Costa
Rican law protects 25% of its territory through the different
Categories of Conservation. But there are many Privates Reserves
that use their lands in Eco Friendly Activities. One of our most
popular tours in the past year was our first Canopy Tour, due
to its high popularity, we started providing it at night, for
a new twist... and oh is it ever twisted in the dark! But because
some of our clients were becoming addicted to the adrenaline of
the activity, but at the same time, wanted a change of scenery,
we added a new one!
Osa Palmas Canopy tour is a good example of Conservation in a
tour of adventure and adrenaline. Our clients get to experience
more speed every time in each of their five zip-lines, at the
same time we are passing through and in between renewable plantations
of trees, primary forest, secondary forest and wide open areas.
Besides that, we have a total of eight platforms with heights
from ground level to 36 meters over the ground, at the height
of the canopy of the forest.
The
great views, the speed and adrenaline, as well as the presence
of the flora and fauna of the area make it a great combination
of experiences.
Marine
Turtles Tour
For the last 50 years, more and more herpetologist and scientists
have been concerned with the conservation of land, freshwater,
and sea turtles. Finally, centers of protection and study have
been created throughout the world, and controlled breeding has
made reintroduction possible. Working to “secure a future
where humans and sea turtles can live together in balance,”
the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST)
is an innovative, proactive and inclusive mechanism for sustainable
development on a regional scale. Since 1981, the WIDECAST network,
with Country Coordinators in more than 40 nations and territories,
has linked scientists, conservationists, resource managers, resource
users, policy-makers, industry groups, educators and other stakeholders
together in a collective effort to develop a unified management
framework.
WIDECAST
has one of the projects in southern Costa Rica, and we are proud
to support them, as well as show you how we are doing it. The
Osa Peninsula is one of the most important place for nesting of
marine turtles in Costa Rica, specifically at Carate Beach. Crocodile
Bay Resort is supporting WIDECAST selling their products in our
gift shop and developing this tour where you can be a part of
the baby marine turtles migration while running to the ocean after
hatching.
In
the hatchery the marine turtle eggs are safe because the wildlife
enemies can’t attack them.
Every
morning hundreds of turtles hatch at the beach and the people
in charge of this project release the baby turtles at the top
of the beach. It’s very important turtles run from the top
of the beach to the water by themselves, because on this way they
will collect the information about different parameters of the
beach, because with this information they will return in fifty
years for nesting. Want a hands on experience with mother nature,
while at the same time getting to play mother to baby sea turtles?
That option is now on the tour list if you do.
Leaves
at 6pm and returns at 12 mn (available December to January)
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more about Crocodile Bay Resort 
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