Costa Rica Beach Evacuation March 21, 2007
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What began a year ago as a trickle, longtime residents leaving Costa Rica’s pacific beach communities, is now a stream. American and foreign residents, are either moving to San Jose, or are leaving Costa Rica entirely. Fed-up with the rampant illegal real estate development, the destruction of not only the environment, but also the destruction of the tranquil beach communities they’ve helped build.
This is a great loss for Costa Rica. Many of these foreign residents, were a part of Costa Rica’s original movement, to protect her environmental treasures. They are foreigners who respect Costa Rica’s land and traditions. Losing these wonderful people makes the effort to preserve Costa Rica more difficult.
There are even some, who have recently purchased Costa Rica beach property, that have become frustrated with lying real estate agents, theiving lawyers, and corrupt municipalities, and have decided to leave after only a short time in Costa Rica.
I will write more about the reasons, and the implications, in future posts.
Ramsay
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People Preserving Costa Rica
Many people are becoming aware of the, environmental and social destruction taking place in Costa Rica, due to illegal and un-planned real estate development. One of the wonderful things about Costa Rica, is that it attracts a large number of people, who love nature and culture. And many of them have been fighting to preserve Costa Rica’s environment and society for a very long time. They are a part of what makes Costa Rica special, and I am proud to call, a few of them my friends.
Chip and Jennifer own a hotel in Manuel Antonio, along with Jeanine their talented and beautiful daughter, run a foundation called “Kids Saving the Rainforest” . Kids Saving the Rainforest has been educating not only, visitors to Manuel Antonio National Park, but world-wide through school classrooms the importance of preserving Costa Rica’s environment. Jeanine will be leaving Costa Rica soon, to attend university, where she will study environmental issues in the United States. And then she plans to return to Costa Rica to benefit the nation with her expertise.
Matt Cook who started the Fund for Costa Rica, is a special friend of mine (we share many values in common), who is fighting to preserve Costa Rica. He has been warning people for years about the danger, facing the environment in Costa Rica, from un-checked real estate development. And how this will affect the environment and the tourism industry. He has been very busy lately, slapping lawsuits on reckless real estate developers, and he appears to be having success. Matt got his start in environmental defense, in Manuel Antonio Costa Rica, trying to save the Mono Titi monkey from extinction. He has now broadened his approach to include other parts of Costa Rica.
Matt and his group of paid environmental volunteers, using GPS technology monitor the development around Manuel Antonio, and notify the appropriate authorities to investigate possible illegal deforestation and development. He has helped me fight, two different American owned real estate companies, in their attempts to deforest, land that lies behind the Banana Tree Hotel, and that is contiguous to Manuel Antonio National Park.
I’ve never met Jack Ewing - but he is my friend. Anyone who tries to protect and preserve Costa Rica is a friend of mine. He lives about one hour south of me, at his large environmental preserve Hacienda Baru, that attracts thousands of visitors per year. At Hacienda Baru, Tourists can enjoy a preserved and protected tropical rainforest and beach, and witness Jack’s re-forestation projects. Jack didn’t start out an environmentalist, quite the opposite, he came to Costa Rica to cattle ranch. A wise investment - and probably the greatest destructive cause - of rainforest deforestation.
Jack Ewing must have had an epiphany, which I am sure you can find him mention, in one of his many books and well written article. He became one of the first environmentalists in Costa Rica. And more importantly, he has worked tirelessly for decades, in doing something that actually makes a difference. He has taken his Costa Rica ranch land and is transforming it back into it’s natural state. Jack realized, back when I was still eating Coco Puffs cereal, that the trends were negative, and that action must be taken to preserve our way of life and the life of the planet. Jack Ewing is a visionary, teacher, and poet. He is one of the reasons I love Costa Rica so much and why I remain so positive.
Ramsay
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