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 Volcanical Central Talamanca Corridor (CBVCT)

This corridor is 11.400 hectares bright. Located betwwen the provinces of Carthage and Limon, and inside conserved zones 'Cordillera Volcanica Central, Amistad Pacifico and Caribean' and implies the following townships: Turrialba, Jimenez, Paraiso and Alvarado of Cartago, Siquirres, Matina and Guacimo of Limon.

It aims at improving the biological connectivity between several private forests and new protected forest areas like the national park of Barbilla, the national park 'Tapenti Maciso of Death', the national park the volcano Turrialba, the park of the monument of Guayabo, the protected areas of Tuis Valley and the private reserve of Vida Silvestre La Marta.

It possesses more than 601 kinds of birds, 169 kinds of mammals and 73 reptiles and 46 amphibians.