Dinner Cruise - Costa Rica Eco Tourism - Visit Tirimbina Rainforest Center and See Scientists at Work

Some not, and produces different societal consequences-some obvious, affects visitors in various ways, is enjoyed or experienced in different ways, eco tourism in Costa Rica can take many forms.

The very word "eco tourism" brings different images to mind in different people, indeed, and.

It's appropriate to label the kinds of ecotourists traveling this country, hence. Costa Rica eco tourism brings to mind enjoying the country's extraordinary biological diversity, for some.

Nearly one of every twenty species of plant and animal in the world is found in Costa Rica, 000 of the globe's land surface, comprising about 1/10, only about as big as little West Virginia.

Almost as many types of birds have been observed in its forests and lands as in the continental United States, and. There are actually more kinds of butterflies in tiny Costa Rica than on the whole continent of Africa.

Sometimes tens of thousands of female turtles come ashore to nest on the deserted beaches. The world's largest Green Sea Turtle preserve is off the Caribbean Coast at Tortuguero Park.

35% of the world's species of cetaceans (porpoises and whales) are found in its offshore waters---and humpback whales from Antarctica travel north to Costa Rica while humpback whales from the Arctic travel south to the same waters.

Has been called "the most biologically intense place" on the planet by National Geographic, just 20 miles long and 8 miles wide, remote Corcovado Park.

" Folks who pay a visit to Costa Rica for any of these things are best described as "vacation eco tourists.

Or hiking jungle trails to lovely waterfalls-which brings us to an internationally acknowledged but little known and relatively little visited place known as the Tirimbina Rainforest Center, taking a photography tour, eco tourism in this tropical land is more diverse than bird watching, however.

Jungle that blanketed 99% of Central America when Christopher Columbus visited its Caribbean shoreline and discovered (and named) Costa Rica in 1503, never logged, "Primary rainforest" is the original. The Tirimbina Rainforest Center sits on about 345 hectares (850 acres) of primary rainforest.

Widespread logging and burning to make more agricultural areas decimated primary forests and only only a small portion of this valuable resource still exists, in the following centuries.

And an internationally identified expert on cacao cultivation and rain forests, allen Young of the Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Public Museum. One of whom was Dr, he invited American researchers to the property. Traveled to Costa Rica to work for the Inter-American Institute for Science and Agriculture and bought the land now occupied by the Center, robert Hunter, the Center's history goes back to 1960 when an American.

" Their professional curiosity and work on rain forests have proved invaluable to understanding the ecosystems of tropical climes. Are "research eco tourists, and others like him who've worked from the Center over the last 50 years, young. Dr.

" Over the following years hundreds of thousands of museum visitors have viewed the Tirimbina exhibit as "virtual eco tourists" whose awareness of the importance--and fragility-of rain forests have contributed to conservation efforts. Called "Exploring Life on Earth, designed a permanent exhibit on the tropical rainforest, in 1986, young but to the Milwaukee Public Museum itself which. Tirimbina proved fascinating not merely to Dr.

Investigacion y Educacion, the Asociacion Tirimbina Para La Conservacion, the Center was transferred to a Costa Rica nonprofit organization, more recently. The Museum eventually bought the Tirimbina Rainforest Center and maintained it until 2006 when it was sold to a Milwaukee nonprofit called the Pura Vida Foundation, indeed.

We recommend going to the Tirimbina Rainforest Center if you're: if you are an eco tourist or interested in real-deal Costa Rica ecotourism,

and museum related work; graduate studies, " This is a working rain forest research center and for 30 years has been used for doctorate research, (a) A "research eco tourist.

(b) An undergraduate looking for a one-of-a kind study abroad opportunity.

Or you will be a "student eco tourist"; if this is for you, This program is modeled after two very popular study abroad programs in Australia and England. Starting Spring Semester 2010, ball State University of Indianapolis recently announced a new Study Abroad in Costa Rica program at Tirimbina Rainforest Center.

Even a chocolate tour; a bat tour; a frog tour; a bird tour; (c) Simply curious about visiting a working tropical forest research center that also hosts family things to do and educational projects like hiking through primary rain forest on several miles of trails.

" Visit the Tirimbina web page for a list of the activities and become "family eco tourists. And a truly remarkable number of optional activities, boat tour, additionally there is an aerial tram tour.

There's a restaurant and accomodations on site for people who wish to stay overnight or for several days.

Give this place serious consideration, if you are planning a Costa Rica vacation. But no more, its existence has been virtually unknown as a tourist destination, until now. 000 Costa Rica eco tourists annually, tirimbina Rainforest Center is visited by only about 8, though it has been known by the scientific community for more than five decades.