Well this is my second round for doing this blog because I just got kicked out of my last computer room, and I thought that it had saved but it didn't for some reason so I just lost the three paragraphs that I had been working on for the past forty minutes. Sorry to say that this introduction is not going to be as long as the last one because that happend. If you want me to be completely honest right now I really feel like not doing this because that happened, but I have to and I am not going to quit. Oh things that happen to me.
Anyway, last Thursday my classmates and I went to the La Selva Research Reserve and stayed there for the night, and to tell you the truth I did not know what to expect because by this point in time we had been to so many rainforest and I thought that I had already seen everything. When we first got to the reserve we of course unload and went to our room, and this time all twenty seven of us were staying in the same lodge. This was actually really nice because at night all of us just hung out and relax; which was really nice to because we really had not had much time to relax before this. After everyone was settled into their room and changed, we had to meet back at the main building so that we could go on our first walk of the day. I thought that we would just see the same old stuff that we had before, but to my pleasure I was wrong. We saw three spider monkeys, a poison dart frog, and boars. After we were done with the walk we had dinner waiting for us as we got back, and after dinner some of us decided to go back out for a night walk. There was about ten of us that went out, and with out failure I was in the front of the line. We had no idea where we were going at all and it was pitch black, but I think that is what added to the excitement of the walk. While we were out, we saw a ton of spiders and sometype of bird nesting at the base of a tree. We were on the walk for about an hour and a half, and when we got back we just stayed up until about 12 or so playing cards and talking. The next morning, we went on another walk and after the walk we had breakfast and left to go to our next destination. Enough about me talking about what we did while we were there. The reason that I am writing this is to tell you why I think that La Selva is a great example of ecotourism.
Since 1968 La Selva Biological Research Reserve has been one of the premier sites in the world for research on tropical rainforest. La Selva is not only a rainforest that has over 50 KM of trails, but it is also a place for learning and tourism. According to costa-rica-guide.com La Selva offers classes such as bird watching 101, nature photography, and scientist for a day. With all of these trails and human actions going on in the reserve you would think that there would not be a lot of old growth, but La Selva is actually covered with some of the most pristine old growth that can be found in Costa Rica. The guides at La Selva are working scientist that are research at La Selva, and have been for a long time. In short, I believe that La Selva does a wonderful job of keeping it a ecotourist environment for several reasons. Some of the reasons that I believe this is because they are able to comtinue to keep the wildlife around La Selva around at the same time as they can bring tourist in to help maintain the forest with the revenue made off of the tourism. Another reason I believe that La Selva does a great job of this is because even though there are thousands upon thousands of visiters a year they still make it environmental friendly by keeping certain areas that are blocked off from the tourist, so that the animals can miagrate easier and are not kept in one region. Overall, I believe that if La Selva continues to do what they are then other organizations will begin to follow La Selvas model of ecotourism.
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