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<journal-id>2215-3896</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de Ciencias Ambientales]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Ciencias Ambientales]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>2215-3896</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional]]></publisher-name>
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<article-id>S2215-38962022000200242</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15359/rca.56/2.13</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[La Reserva Biológica Tirimbina, en Costa Rica: modelo en la conservación del bosque lluvioso tropical, la investigación científica, el ecoturismo y la educación ambiental]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[The Tirimbina Biological Reserve, in Costa Rica: model in the conservation of the tropical rain forest, scientific research, ecotourism and environmental education]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[García-Sánchez]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Mariela]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
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<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[González-Chaverri]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Pedro]]></given-names>
</name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="Aff"/>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Reserva Biológica Tirimbina  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<aff id="Af2">
<institution><![CDATA[,Reserva Biológica Tirimbina  ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Costa Rica</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2022</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>56</volume>
<numero>2</numero>
<fpage>242</fpage>
<lpage>253</lpage>
<copyright-statement/>
<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S2215-38962022000200242&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S2215-38962022000200242&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.sa.cr/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S2215-38962022000200242&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Reserva Biológica Tirimbina es una iniciativa privada de conservación ubicada en La Virgen de Sarapiquí, Heredia, Costa Rica. Sus orígenes se dieron gracias a la visión de conservación del estadounidense el Dr. J. Robert Hunter, quien, aparte de incorporar cultivos novedosos en la zona, decidió mantener e incentivar la protección de varias hectáreas de bosque tropical en los años 60, y a investigadores como el Dr. Allen M. Young que se vieron inspirados por la exuberante biodiversidad del bosque tropical. Hoy Tirimbina se encuentra en manos de la Asociación Tirimbina para la Conservación, Investigación y Educación, una agrupación costarricense sin fines de lucro que se encarga de gestionar la reserva con un modelo de conservación en el que el ecoturismo genera ingresos no solo para la protección del bosque, sino para continuar financiando proyectos de investigación científica y educación ambiental que forjan beneficios a nivel local y nacional.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Tirimbina Biological Reserve is a private conservation initiative located in La Virgen de Sarapiquí, Heredia, Costa Rica. Its origins were due to the conservation vision of the American Dr J. Robert Hunter, who, apart from incorporating innovative crops in the area, decided to maintain and encourage the protection of several hectares of tropical forest in the 1960s, and to researchers such as Dr. Allen M. Young who were inspired for the exuberant biodiversity of the tropical forest. Today Tirimbina is in the hands of the Tirimbina Association for Conservation, Research and Education, a Costa Rican non-profit group that oversees managing the reserve with a conservation model in which ecotourism generates income not only for the protection of the forest, but to continue financing scientific research and environmental education projects that generate benefits at the local and national levels.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Conservación privada]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[ecoturismo]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[educación ambiental]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[investigación científica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Sarapiquí]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Tirimbina.]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Ecotourism]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[environmental education]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[private conservation]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Sarapiquí]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[scientific research]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Tirimbina.]]></kwd>
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