The decree was signed in San Gerardo de Dota (Savegre area) by Luis Guillermo Solis and the minister of the environment. This decree also includes explicit provisions that establish an organizational structure for managing all areas involved in the program, places that fall into the family, environmental organizations, productive sectors, and other participants.
“Biosphere Reserves play a crucial role in generating opportunities for productive development, biodiversity sustainability, water resources and the adaptation of communities to climate change, so it is important that we organize our efforts and work for Improve its management through possible alliances between different local sectors and international sectors, “
President Luis Guillermo Solis.
The areas contribute to the international category of conservation established by UNESCO, which considers the people and their community a fundamental element of the country’s sustainable development.
Costa Rica has four biosphere reserves; La Amistad – Talamanca, the central volcanic mountain range, Agua y Paz, and Savegre, which was recently designated.
From now on, communities are organized to create local committees for the Biosphere Reserve; together with the national committee on humans and the Biosphere, and a person assigned by the Ministry of the Environment Committee, will manage the resources properly..
