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...reason: in collaboration with the Nature Conservancy International, he is attempting to raise $11.8 million for an unprecedented ecological experiment. Janzen plans to use the money to buy 158 sq. mi. of Costa Rican terrain surrounding Santa Rosa and re-create a virtually extinct ecosystem known as tropical dry forest. He has already named the proposed refuge Guanacaste National Park...
Janzen has so far collected $1.3 million from such contributors as the MacArthur and W. Alton Jones foundations and is now 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...
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...
...happened before. Strong directors -- like John Boorman with The Emerald Forest and Roland Joffe with The Mission -- are drawn to shoot stories of strong men in death-defying jungle locations. They end up tracking their willful protagonists to death or madness, and the audience rarely follows. With all his art and effort, Weir is unable to enlist cogent concern for Allie Fox. One escapes from The Mosquito Coast as one might from a plague of the title insects, itching and irritable...
Come next March the monarchs will stir, begin mating and in a great whirlwind of color set out for the U.S. Six months later, a new generation will fly south, headed for the tiny patches of fir forest that conservationists and Mexican officials hope will be a butterfly refuge for another epoch...