Costa Rica gets back to nature after decades of deforestation

Our small boat motored almost silently along the river that ran in a serpentine path through the rich rainforest of the Tortuguero national park on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast. Monkeys, sloths and a variety of exotic birds could be glimpsed overhead through the dappled light breaching the forest canopy, while caimans – similar to small alligators – eyed us warily from the water’s edge. Rounding a bend in the river, it suddenly seemed to…