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The 'Bridge' Project - Costa Rica

This is quite a complex project to precis. Run by the Area de Conservation Guanacaste under the control of the internationally respected ecologist Professor Dan Janzen of the University of Pennsylvania, it is a land and forest purchase project in the northern highlands of Costa Rica linking the established Reserve of Santa Rosa in the Pacific lowlands with the National Parks of Guanacaste and Rincon de la Vieja. This provides a continuous bridge or corridor of forest from the Pacific lowland dry gallery forest to the highland cloud forests.

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Such a corridor is considered vitally important in this narrow neck of Central America both for long distance bird immigrants, and for altitudinal migration of birds, mammals and insects.

Down payments have already been made for the purchase of a 530 hectare area of mixed rainforest and pasture suitable for reforestation. Funding for the final payment in January 1999 is required of approximately $150,000. The cost per acre is approximately £150 and reflects the competition from agriculture.


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