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...negotiating to buy 15.4 sq. mi. of land -- a mosaic of 20- to 50-acre farms, grasslands and plots of forest -- from farmers and cattlemen. He offers the going rate of $200 to $300 a hectare (2.5 acres). With crops and cattle returning marginal profits in Costa Rica, and interest rates exceeding 20%, he has met with little resistance and hopes to purchase the remaining land by February 1988. Environmentalists are cheering him on. "We as conservationists in Latin America have traditionally (preserved) pristine or virgin areas," says Curtis Freese, the World Wildlife Fund's director of Latin American...
Tropical dry forests differ from rain forests in that their precipitation is seasonal. During the rainy period, the landscape is verdant, but during the five to six months of the year that are rainless (early December to mid-May in Costa Rica), many trees lose their leaves. Unlike the temperate zone's deciduous hardwood forests, however, they do not become fully dormant. Instead, the bare trees flower and bear fruit, which nourishes a variety of mammals and insects. Centuries ago, such vegetation covered 60% of the forest regions of Latin America, India, Southeast Asia, Africa and northern Australia...
...biologist hails the Costa Ricans for their support of the Guanacaste project. Since 1970, Costa Rica has been one of Latin America's most conservation-minded countries. It has set aside nearly 20% of its land for parks and reserves -- more than any other nation in the tropics. Janzen admits that he would not have attempted such a large-scale reclamation project anywhere else. But, he says, "I think this is the way of the future. Guanacaste is a demonstration of the fact that you can grow back a tropical forest if the community that lives around it comes...
Hall was not the only former C.M.A. member in the news. One day after Hall's arrest, Steven Carr, 27, died in the driveway of his Los Angeles condominium, presumably of a cocaine overdose. Carr was one of five mercenaries jailed in Costa Rica in 1985 for aiding the contras. Police say there is no evidence of foul play, but some people close to Carr find the death suspicious. In interviews, Carr has said that he made one arms run for the contras from Florida to El Salvador, where weapons were unloaded in the presence of U.S. military personnel. Carr...
...would you build one of fiber glass unless you wanted to cheat?" he asked at a press conference. Added Blackaller: "My engineers have told me for six years that you can't build a fiber-glass boat light and strong enough . . . under the rules." The Yacht Club Costa Smeralda of Sardinia, organizer of the challenger series, has not responded to the war of words. As a matter of normal procedure, however, it will remeasure and check all semifinalists before racing resumes after Christmas...