The Caribbean overall is a beautiful, often mesmerizing travel destination, but this national park tops even that standard ...

We have achieved incredible progress. In that sense, we have the Cocos Island National Park, which is bigger than our land mass. It is a no-take zone whatsoever, 50,000 square kilometers.

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In the Cocos Island National Park the following have been identified: 235 species of plants, with 70 endemic. 362 species of insects, 64 of them exclusive to the island.

But in 2016, the tide began to shift in the crabs’ favor with the introduction of a biocontrol agent. Australia’s national park agency bred and released a teeny tiny wasp.

The Cocos Marine Conservation Area (ACMC-SINAC) has reported a significant decrease in illegal fishing activities within Cocos Island National Park. This positive development is attributed to the ...

About 100 metres from the end of a runway earmarked to take spy planes for the Australian Defence Force and its allies, hundreds of vulnerable turtles are starving and dying.

Early morning of 6 December 2022, Costa Rican Park rangers & volunteers sailed out to Cocos Island National Park to filter environmental DNA (eDNA) from the water. The local sampling is part of the ...

Galápagos, Ecuador – Scientists have discovered extensive, ancient deep-sea coral reefs within the Galápagos Marine Reserve (GMR) – the first of their kind ever to be documented inside the ...

In December 2021, the island made environmental news: Costa Rica would expand Cocos Island National Park to 27 times its original size. With that, Costa Rica’s endangered sharks—one of the most ...

This new protected area surrounds Cocos Island National Park, which the Costa Rican government also expanded to protect 53,000 square kilometer (nearly 20,500 square miles) where fishing and other ...

This area is home to four UNESCO World Heritage marine sites: Cocos Island National Park (Costa Rica); the Galapagos National Park and Marine Reserve (Ecuador), which is part of the Galapagos ...