2007

• Depredatory tourism takes everything with it
• An ecological forest restoration proposal
• Business conservationism impacts on rainforest peasants, women and children

2006

• Gringos landing at Tortuga Landing
• Lessons learnt from the struggle against plantations

2005

• Legalizing illegal logging and illegalizing legal logging

2004

• The “eco” disguise of tourism threatens last pristine forests
• Nicoya Gulf and drinking water in the region endangered by gold-mining

2003

• Oil extortion
• Hopeful resolution on moratorium to mining and oil

2002

• The slow death of large-scale monoculture eucalyptus plantations
• Japanese dollars to promote monoculture tree plantations
• NGO questions "green label" logging in protected area
• The people say Yes to Life, No to Mining
• Will Costa Rica be declared free from oil exploration and extraction?

2001

• Opposition to hydroelectric dam
• Canadian mining company attempts to silence opposition
• Indigenous territory threatened by hydroelectric dam

2000

• The dangers of tree monoculture "forests"
• The beneficial return of the forest
• Forest policy and the evolution of land use

1999

• Environmentally or industrially-friendly forest management?
• The depredatory practices of an oil palm plantation company
• Secondary forests a better option than plantations
• Support to Osa Peninsula forests.
• The "green gold" bluff
• Repression to peaceful protest in Costa Rica
• All that glitters is not gold

1998

• Good news from Costa Rica

1997

• Against mining activities

OTHER RELEVANT INFORMATION

• El Diablo Ambiental: Amo y Señor de Costa Rica - Comunicado de Prensa de la Federación Costarricense para la conversación del ambiente - FECON (only in Spanish)

• The Tragedy of the Enclosures: An Eco-feminist Perspective on Selling Oxygen and Prostitution in Costa Rica. by Ana Isla

• Pago de servicios ambientales a las plantaciones de monocultivos de árboles
  presentación realizada por Grupo de Estudio en Bosques de la FECON y COECOCEIBA-AT CR (tamaño del archivo 11.57 MB)

• La restauración ecologista del bosque tropical. Una alternativa de reforestación ambientalmente sana y socialmente justa y participativa.
  por Javier Baltodano - marzo 2004 (only in Spanish)

• La madera, el bosque y la gente. Propuesta ecologista para producir madera respetando el bosque y las comumidades. (only in Spanish)
  por Javier Baltodano - setiembre 2003

• No más amazas de los madereros!!!!!
  28 de Noviembre del 2002 - Oilwatch Costa Rica (only in Spanish)

• Comunidad pesquera de Costa Rica rechaza megaproyecto turístico
  por Sonia Torres Arguedas - publicado en EcoPortal.net (only in Spanish)

• Action Alert: Denuncian madereo con "sello verde" en área protegida 
  June 2002 (only in Spanish)

• Action Alert: Empresa minera enjuicia a regidora municipal  
  August 2001 (only in Spanish)

• Local community organized against oil companies / photos 

• 2002
  - Denuncian madereo con "sello verde" en área protegida (only in Spanish)
  - Costa Rica declared a country free of oil exploration
  - La Minería No Pasará. Minas No!! Agua Sí! (only in Spanish)

• 2001
  - Nueva instancia del juicio de empresa minera contra regidora municipal
  - Empresa minera enjuicia a regidora municipal (only in Spanish)

LINKS

APREFLOFAS - Asociación Preservacionista de Flora y Fauna Silvestre
http://www.preserveplanet.org  

ADELA - Acción de Lucha Antipetrolera
http://www.cosmovisiones.com/adela/ 

COECO-Ceiba, Amigos de la Tierra
http://www.coecoceiba.org/

Federación Costarricense para la Conservación del Ambiente
http://www.feconcr.org/

Revistas: Ambien-tico / Ambientales
http://www.ambientico.una.ac.cr/