Photo Friday: Cano Island in Costa Rica: How the Rangers and Volunteers Live In
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Cano Island is a precious gem about one hour off the coast of Osa Peninsula. It is a tourist mecca and a huge money maker for many tour agencies. It is also a Marine National Park falling into the hands of a third world country, ues Costa Rica is an environmentally conscious country, but still 3rd world. This is a perfect place to travel in Costa Rica if your looking to make the world a better place or do some volunteer work for your vacations.
We were invited to stay over by a friend of mine who’s boyfriend is the Park Ranger of the Island and had the rare opportunity to sleep in the ‘biological station/house’.
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On a daily basis over $20,000 is exchanged hands with different tour operators and the entrance fee covered by the Costa Rican government which is $10 a head and $15 if you’re snorkeling. Plus, they have seldom volunteers who arrive here paying a ton of money to ‘do good’ and instead leave confused as to what exactly they are contributing to.
None of this money trickles down to the actual island. The living conditions of this place would have any semi-decent building shut down and most probably burned down.
Since the tourists are completely unaffected by it and the staff are simply happy to have jobs, I doubt anything will change in the near future.
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