Biological corridors

 

A biological corridor is a continuous passage between ecosystems and natural or modified habitats.
It assures the maintenance of biological diversity thanks to the facility of migration and dispersion of fauna and flora, assuring this way their long-term conservation.

These corridors constitute a strategy to face the problem of the fragmentation of the habitats, enhanced by activities such as agriculture, industrial reforestation, urbanization… Biological corridors are used as complement or as zone of damping for traditional parks, allowing the communication between different protected areas.

 

The Mesoamericano Corridor

The Mesoamericano biological corridor is an international project aiming at preserving the ecological connectivity over the Central American isthmus.

Eight countries (Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and Mexico) are involved via the Central American Commission of the Environment.
Their governments decided to facilitate the design of the biological corridors in order to improve the genetic fluency between populations of species to fight against their degradation and possible extinction.

Costa Rica is deeply involved in the protection and conservation of the environment. In 1999, a program of reinforcement for the Mesoamericano biological corridor was established to facilitate the establishment of a national program of several small biological corridors that would form bridges between the different protected areas.

 

 

The Biological Corridor Turrialba Jimenez

This corridor is 72.082 hectares bright. Located in the province of Carthage, it aims at improving the biological connectivity between the national park of the volcano Turrialba, the national park of the monument of Guava tree, the protected areas of Tuis Valley and the private reserve of Vida Silvestre La Marta.

It possesses more than 600 kinds of birds, 169 mammals and 73 reptiles and amphibians.