Above all this talk will examine land use in Central America, especially Costa Rica, through a quetzal lens — no species does more to bring current land use trends in this region into focus.

Costa Rica is home to five percent of the world's ... and Los Quetzales National Park are homes to birds such as the ...

Entre las especies más buscadas están el quetzal, el pájaro campana, el zopilote rey, y varias especies de colibríes. Solo en Costa Rica hay 52 tipos de colibríes, aves únicas del continente ...

donde habitan un buen número de las casi 1.000 especies de aves que pueblan Costa Rica. Regalo digno de reyes Pero es el quetzal, por su rareza, el que atrae la atención de cientos de turistas ...

I’ve heard someone claim that in Costa Rica, there are 10 tourists for every quetzal,” Iván Eskildsen, owner of Ogaya Travel, tells me. “But in Panama, for every tourist there are 10 quetzals,” he ...

Costa Rican forests are home to such animals as jaguars, howler monkeys, toucans, and the resplendent quetzal. Costa Rica has extended legal protection to about 25 percent of its land area, ...