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A series of photographs that show the richness of Costa Rica’s biodiversity, particularly that of the Pacuare Nature Reserve is being showcased at the Royal Botanic Garden in Madrid, Spain.
The exhibit organized by the Royal Botanic Garden (RJB-CSIC) showcases a collection of photographs taken by the students of the Official Program of Masters and Doctorate in Biodiversity in Tropical Areas and their Conservation, who carried out their practice in a visit of several weeks to the Pacuare Nature Reserve as well as some other locations in Panama and Nicaragua; through this experience they were able to document graphically the sites visited and some of the species that inhabit there.
The exhibit titled “Pura Biodiversidad” (Pure Biodiversity) will be showcased through January 14 at the Bonsai Greenhouse.
The director of the Costa Rica National Institute of Biodiversity (INBio), Randall Garcia, said in an interview with EFE that “only 18% of the species that exist in the country have been registered or have a scientific name”… “It is impossible to know what you lose if you don’t know what you have, and the Costa Rican biodiversity is ‘inmense’”, indicated the expert. “While Spain is the European nation most rich in biodiversity with close to 42,000 registered species, in the Central American county we estimate that there are half a million species”
