Costa Rica offers a wide spectrum of animals and plants despite ist relative small land mass – around 5% of the world’s flora and fauna species is represented in Costa Rica. More than 25% of the country is either a natural reserve or a protected forest.

There are very known National Parks in Costa Rica, and one of them is Corcovado National Park. It is host to big cats and tapirs.

Tortuguero National Park is famous for the three-toed sloth, howler and white-throated Capuchin monkeys, and for more than 320 species of birds; the green turtle returns every year to this place as well as other turtle species like the Giant leatherback, hawksbill, and loggerhead turtles.

Various orchids blossom in the Monteverde Cloud Forest Reserve among other 2,000 plant species, feeding and offering a habitat to 400 types of birds and 100 species of mammals.

Link: Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad

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