Herbert Nanne TBF Costa Rica. Nanne is a biologist and The Billfish Foundation’s (TBF) Central America Conservation Director.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica — Costa Rica, one of the world’s premier sportfishing destinations, has named Herbert Nanne, and Monica Gutierrez to the country’s recently formed Sportfishing and Tourism Commission.
Nanne is a biologist and The Billfish Foundation’s (TBF) Central America Conservation Director. Gutierrez is a lawyer and President of Pronature, a sister conservation entity to TBF.
After a TBF sponsored socio-economic study was presented last year on the positive impact sportfishing has for the country, the Costa Rica Fisheries and Aquaculture Institute (INCOPESCA) created the commission in July 2010. Its duties include creating alternative projects among the small and medium-scale artisan coastal fleets to reduce commercial fishing during closed fishing seasons. It’s also charged with promoting sportfishing in Costa Rica and proposing conservation measures to be adopted by INCOPESCA for all sportfishing species.
“We’ve started discussions to promote converting commercial fishers to sportfishing and eco-tourism operations,” said Nanne. “We’re beginning in the Gulf of Nicoya, a highly productive area that is severely overexploited. The nearby ports of Puntarenas and Caldera are visited by cruise-liners and the tourists could be taken on sportfishing trips or for tours to observe the beauties of the islands and mangrove estuarine systems where tropical fauna is abundant. Read more... (539 words, 2 images, estimated 2:09 mins reading time)
In the last couple of weeks one of our accounts has been having a hard time logging into their server. So after they rebooted the router a few times and then cleaned the ends of the cables the problem still existed. For a while it was driving me a bit crazy why this was happening until suddenly that light bulb clicked on; I remembered the article I wrote back in April, 2010, Net Neutrality For Costa Rica – Throttling Bandwidth Usages and Charging For It.
A Free Trade Agreement signed with the US and Canada (a few years back) ensured that private companies are able to operate in the telecoms sector. State-owned ISP, Radiográfica Costarricense (RACSA) has already formed alliances with the main cable operators to allow them to provide broadband services and ICE has been working feverishly to upgrade their system. Since then, the competition has been going hog wild running fiber optic just about everywhere, which leads one to ask two big questions: Read more... (1075 words, 2 images, estimated 4:18 mins reading time)
- Are some of Costa Rica Internet Service Providers (ISP) starting to throttle bandwidth to save money?
- And could this be the first sign that these companies may start charging their customers for excessive and/or limit bandwidth as we wrote about back in April, 2010?
Chipkos announced their latest pair of flip-flops. They will be the world’s most expensive, a jaw-dropping $18,000 for the pair.
No doubt ecology is a big issue, and no doubt businesses will hype their ecology concern in an effort to increase sales. However, one company takes it to the extreme and hopefully it will benefit Costa Rica.
Last week, designer sandal’s guru, Chipkos announced their latest pair of flip-flops. They will be the world’s most expensive, jaw-dropping $18,000 for a pair.
WOW!!! - H.Stern’s $17,000 diamond-flecked sandals previously held that title.
Hand-painted by Los Angeles contemporary artist David Palmer, the one-of-a-kind, ashram-inspired sandals features the Chipkos emblem gilded in six grams of 18-carat recycled gold by Readers Fine Jewelers in Santa Monica. Although they are pretty funky, the pair is not emblazoned with diamonds, or even Swarovski crystals or any other precious jewels for that matter.
So how can they justify the price?
Here is the “justify price” or eco-hype: For each pair sold, Chipkos will adopt 100,000 square feet of endangered rainforest in Costa Rica and guarantees, the protection and preservation of land, species and natural resources. But it’s all for a good cause or least that’s what we’ll be telling our accountant, but the IRS may be a different story, unless this is a certified “donation.” But if you are a billionaire, $18,000 is a drop in a 50 gallon drum. Read more... (519 words, 1 image, estimated 2:05 mins reading time)
Many of the strip clubs in Costa Rica are in an area known as the infamous Red Zone (Zona Roja) of San Jose, which starts just one block north of the Central Market, and continues downhill to the river and old prison.
Zona Roja and the Dominican Zone are two of San Jose’s most notorious areas for high crime, like pickpocketing, drugs, assaults, and petty theft, so unless you know the area, or traveling with someone who does, it is advise to steer clear. If you do go, make sure you take a taxi going and leaving.
Generally the further you walk west and south from the post office the riskier the neighborhood. The areas like the Central Market can get crowed, especially after 3pm. Nightclubs and strip joints in Costa Rica are known as places for prostitution and only add to the countries adult lifestyle. For more, view the Map of San Josa and Costa Rica Adult Nightlife. The reviews and photos are from, Adult Search. Read more... (2098 words, 16 images, estimated 8:24 mins reading time)
The world’s most advance technology will have it 20th Birthday on Aug, 8th; thats when the “World Wide Web (www)” first gained a public face in 1991.
CERN, which straddles the border between France and Switzerland, publicized the new World Wide Web project, two years after, British scientist Tim Berners-Lee had begun creating HTML, HTTP and the first few Web pages at CERN.
The World Wide Web in its short span has grown into a multi-trillion dollar business – making it the fastest growing business in the history of mankind. In 1998, less than .1% of the population of Costa Rica (including the World) had no clue to what the Internet was.
With the Costa Rica’s Free Trade Agreement and ICE’s suddenly lost of its IP monopoly (caused by competition), and its recent monopoly on Apple iPhones Costa Rica is demanding technology, particularly internet service at an alarming rate.
According to a poll we have been conducting, seventy-eight percent of Costa Ricans are influence by technology. As one person commented on one of our Blog posts: Read more... (832 words, 2 images, estimated 3:20 mins reading time)
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