Close to our Spanish school in Samara, turtles are making their way to lay their eggs in Ostional, Costa Rica, a phenomenon known in Spanish as "arribada" or a mass emergence from the ocean.  Thousands of "tortugas lora," or olive ridley turtles nest here each year in the refuge that was created in 1984.  Prior to 1984, there were no laws prohibiting or regulating the…

The Brooklyn Museum in New York has begun the process of returning precolombian pieces to Costa Rica, after a 77 year stay in the New York Museum.  The pieces were collected by a Brooklyn businessman, Minor Keith, as he worked in the railroad and fruit industries in Costa Rica and he donated them to his hometown museum in 1934.  The pieces will be displayed in…