PANAMA CITY / BOGOTA / SAN JOSE - While European leaders keep dragging their feet, some countries in Latin America—despite numerous obstacles and lack of funding—are hard at work to restore their natural environments. Tim Vernimmen visited three of them in the hope they might teach us how to do better at home.

Costa Rica once saw some of the fastest deforestation in the world, but later became a model of how to halt deforestation and promote forest recovery.

In Panama, more than a hundred years of careful research in a well-preserved patch of forest on an island in the Panama Canal is now revealing the imminent impacts of climate change on animals and plants.

In Colombia, conservationists and the government have joined forces to protect vulnerable ecosystems high in the Andes that supply the capital with drinking water, while also improving the lives of the local population.

Photo: © Tim Vernimmen

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  • Panama
  • Costa Rica

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