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                      crsurfzone Environmental Awareness and Education

crsurfzone is dedicated to helping to achieve greater global environmental awareness beginning locally. We will try to report what is happening in Costa Rica and inspire our visitors to become involved in to become active members of the global environmental movement by starting at home. 

    What is Shark Finning? Take a Look
          www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYliIgW9eKk

 One of Costa Rica's Heros - Jack Ewing  
         www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVOdl_Vmzdk

                       Save Osa's Rivers
           www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVRsR23t-g4    

              Environmental Education
    Cloud Forest School in Monteverde
            www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKPtMyRXKSs

 Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Reserve - 
                                   FAUNA

          Current Costa Rica 
        Environmental News

Controversial Airport Is Planned for Costa Rica
By Dylan Walsh, New York Times
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
In a region of Costa Rica that harbors 3 percent of the world’s known biodiversity, a proposed international airport is eliciting concern about ecological consequences and potential damage to an existing and exemplary network of ecotourism lodges.

On the Osa Peninsula, a hooking promontory on the southwest Pacific coast, the airport is planned for a site only three miles from the Térraba-Sierpe Wetland, a recognized Wetland of International Importance with annual ecosystem services valued near $2 billion.  

Read the complete NY Times article...

Powerful Earthquake Rocks Costa Rica's North-West
5 September 2012
The Red Cross said a 55-year-old woman died of a heart attack in Guanacaste, near the epicentre of the quake, and a construction worker was killed when a wall collapsed.  
The US Geological Survey said the 7.6-magnitude quake occurred beneath the Nicoya peninsula, 140km (87 miles) west of the capital, San Jose.
          Read the complete BBC article...

Costa Rica Claims First 'Zero Emissions' Airline
Leo Hickman on a carbon offsetting scheme that really works - because you can see where the money is going from your airline window seat
Read the complete The Guardian story...

Will a blue agenda work?

Posted: Friday, August 10, 2012 - By David Boddiger and Clayton R. Norman
Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla has a road map to fix the country's broken system of marine-resource management. But will she use it?
             Read the Tico Times Article

The Present and Future of Sustainable Agriculture
Posted: Friday, August 03, 2012 - By Ed Bernhardt
Sooner or later we’ll be obligated to take the course of sustainable development.
              Read the Tico Times Article

Living Light: Using Renewable Energy in the Home
Posted: Friday, July 06, 2012 - By Emma Kimata
In most areas, solar energy is the most logical renewable-energy option for Costa Rica, which averages about 5.5 hours of usable sunlight per day.           
                Read the Tico Times Article

EARTH University Goes Global
By Matt Levin  | The Tico Times
Second in a two part series on how EARTH University is innovating new ways to improve the environment in Costa Rica and beyond.
                Read the Tico Times Article

Four Arrested in Costa Rica Shark Fin Poaching Operation
Wednesday, June 27th, 2012 
Four Costa Ricans were arrested yesterday morning by the National Coast Guard (NG) on suspicion of killing sharks at sea for their fins.
    Read the Costa Rica News Article

Report Shows RECOPE Exceeds Legal Limits of Highly Toxic Chemicals in Fuel
The Association of Vehicle and Machinery Import (AIVEMA) conducted a series of chemical studies that states that the gasoline the Costa Rican Oil Refinery (RECOPE) imports and distributes causes serious health problems to people and considerable damage to vehicles. The concerns are caused high content of components such as the MMT, a magnesium based chemical, [...]
        Read the Costa Rica News Article


Interpol Issues International Red Notice for Paul Watson of Sea Shepherd
Interpol has issued an international Red Notice for fugitive Paul Watson, , after he skipped bail in Germany awaiting Extradition to Costa Rica . Watson, a Canadian, often called an eco-pirate, was arrested in May in Frankfurt on a warrant from Costa Rica, where he is wanted on charges stemming from a high-seas confrontation over [...]
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Presidential Commission recommends total reform of Costa Rica´s Fisheries Institute

A total reform of Costa Rica´s Fishery Institute, is the main recommendation of a Presidential Commission (spanish only) charged with recommending President Chinchilla on urgent actions to take towards the improvement of marine governance.  The Commission presented their 5 step plan to the public today in the Presidential House, after a 6 month process to study the current scenario and set goals and activities for the future.

"We have been saying this for years," said Randall Arauz, a member of a Costa Rica coalition of NGOs called Front for our Seas.  "The public interest will never be served without the reform of Incopesca, an institution that currently solely serves the economic interests of its Board members," said Arauz.

"The report of the Presidential Commission is historic," said an enthusiastic Wagner Quirós, spokesperson of the Front for our Seas.  "Hopefully, this isn't only the end of Incopesca as we know it, but also the dawn of new era in national marine conservation.", said Quirós.

"We hope President Chinchilla´s prediction becomes true, and that Costa Rica becomes a global and well respected leader and model for marine conservation," said Leonora Jiménez of Front for our Seas.  "The world needs environmental champions, and the Costa Rican people expect that from our nation." Concluded Jiménez. Other recommendations include:

•   Create a sole and superior high level authority of permanent nature to lead ocean issues.
•   Foster the approval of several laws pertaining to marine governance.
•   Promote scientific research and the training of Costa Rican researchers
•   Propose a national vision that guarantees the sustainable use, security and conservation of marine spaces and resources.

For more information:
Pretoma  (506) 22415227
pretoma.org
www.pretoma.org

Pretoma is a Costa Rican Civil Association of Public Interest and is an active member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN and the World Society for the Protection of Animals WSPA.

New petition delivered to President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica against shark fin imports

(July 27, 2012 - San Jose, Costa Rica)

Students signing the petition at the 
Minaet´s Environmental Fair, last June 5-6, Antigua Aduana building, San José.

A petition signed by 1937 citizens was delivered today to President Laura Chinchilla of Costa Rica, calling for her to take measures and immediately ban the importation of shark fins.  This new petition adds up with two others delivered last year (12/7/2011 and (19/9/2011) with 4500 signatures from Costa Ricans and citizens from 34 nations, including 380 signatures by Taiwanese citizens.

As of December 1 of 2010, date on which the private docks of Puntarenas were closed to the landing of fishery products by the Taiwanese fleet established in Puntarenas, Costa Rica has imported over 15,500 Kg of shark fins from Nicaragua.

According to Miguel Gómez, collaborator of Pretoma, congruency must exist between domestic and foreign marine conservation policy.  "For instance, Costa Rica has included hammerhead sharks in Appendix III of Cites to control its international commerce, but at the same time it promotes the importation of shark fins by Taiwanese vessels that refuse to land their products under public scrutiny," pointed out Gómez.

"The importation of shark fins is a mockery of our legislation, and it perpetuates shark finning in the region," says Randall Arauz, of the Costa Rican organization Pretoma.  "We thus call again on President Laura Chinchilla to strengthen Costa Rica's leadership in the regional shark conservation and management processes currently underway in the region, and proceed to ban the importation of shark fins."

For more information:
Pretoma  (506) 22415227
Facebook: Asociación Pretoma
www.pretoma.org

Pretoma is a Costa Rican Civil Association of Public Interest and is an active member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature IUCN and the World Society for the Protection of Animals WSPA.


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