Mud and Humidity

Today we visited a private farm that has been converted to a conservation area for primary forest. The people we met with there work on jaguar monitoring and conservation. The farm continues to operate to suport the hundred or so people who live on it.
Costa Rica has a huge amount of national park land but they don't protect it. Poaching and illegal logging are rampant. The government under the current administration gives no money to secure the parks. Private areas like this that employ guards to patrol the reserve are the only way that land and animals are protected.
The group working to protect the cats in Costa Rica is ProCAT. Check out their website http://www.procat-talamanca.org/