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Costa Rica is a world leader in conservation and preservation. Check out the new ideas being employed to save the jaguar from extinction by creating "paths" throughout Central and South America for them to migrate. How will this help the jaguars? []

Even Costa Rica's President has joined the "green revolution." President Arias wants Costa Rica to become the world's first developing nation to become carbon-neutral, and he has set an aggressive goal to achieve this by 2021. This would mean that Costa Rica will absorb as much carbon dioxide as it issues, a difficult proposition for any country to undertake. As a part of this effort, the Costa Rican government is paying people to plant trees, rather than sell their land to developers and ranchers. Trees, of course, absorb carbon dioxide, so the theory is that this will help lower the "carbon footprint." Efforts such as these are called "carbon offsetting."

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Can carbon offsetting significantly slow down global warming resulting from greenhouse gas emissions? Does this distract our focus from outright reducing emissions? Scientists are still trying to figure out what approach to prioritize...but no question, the more we can do to lessen our impact, the better! If we don't do something, beautiful places such as this cloud forest will be gone forever, perhaps in just a few decades!

[|http://www.thepanamanews.com/pn/v_15/issue_15/opinion_06.html]