Biocultural restoration of a tropical forest.

NATIONAL parks & reserves; RAIN forest conservation; JANZEN, Daniel; RAIN forest ecology; RAIN forests

GUANACASTE National Park (Costa Rica); COSTA RicaReport Available

Discusses the plans of architects of Costa Rica's Guanacaste National Park to make it an integral part of local culture. Work of biologist Daniel Janzen, a biologist at the University of Pennsylvania in saving and maintaining the tropical rain forest; Emphasis of the project on biocultural restoration as well as ecological restoration; Programs which will be held in the park for grade school, high school, and university students, civic groups, and tourists; Idea that the program will expose the local population to natural history, and thus to biological understanding. INSETS: Ecological restoration;The sociology of a land purchase.