Photo-Journey Through a Costa Rican Rainforest

Photo-Journey Through a Costa Rican Rainforest
by Sandy Wiseman
EcoJourney.org

Sandy Wiseman shares an exquisite journey through a tropical rainforest in Costa Rica, near the Rara Avis reserve. Rara Avis is a publicly held corporation whose goal is to demonstrate how management of a tropical rainforest can conserve natural wilderness and still serve the needs of local peoples, landowners and governments. Rara Avis is an excellent example of how the free market economy can be used to preserve and protect rainforests, wildlife, and ecological balance.

Sandy Wiseman has witnessed and photographed not only the beauty you see here, but the tragedy of these rainforests being cleared by fire for development and export beef. If you are interested in visiting this rainforest yourself, or would like to help protect them in any other way, both Sandy and Rara Avis would be happy to hear from you.

Photo-Journey through a Costa Rican Rainforest
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A repeated piercing squawk fractured my sleep again, the same intrusive sound that jolted me awake each of the past two days. I knew its source was a bird, near the ground and probably within ten feet of my cabin, but hidden in the dense curtain of leaves beside the trail. Experience also taught that the moment I stepped outside it would turn silent and still. So I turned my thoughts elsewhere.

Through the screened window at the head of my bed I could see the orange glow of the sun on the forest canopy across the river. I pulled on my field clothes, still damp, pants caked with mud below the knees, and went down to the deck high overlooking Atelophus creek. I checked the weather (clear sky, cool, sweatshirt needed) and glanced at the green-fronted lancebill hummingbird nesting against the cabin just under the overhanging roof.

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