Costa Rica

Launched: 2021

Top 5 Members

Quepos

Coco

Inactive Members

These members were previously active but have not had a Green Fins assessment or self-evaluation to verify their environmental impact in the last 12 months. An inactive status does not mean they are not operational or that they are not following environmental standards.

The Green Fins COSTA RICA Team 🇨🇷

Green Fins Costa Rica is the latest country to join the Green Fins network starting in November 2021. With support from IDB Lab under the Beyond Tourism programme, Green Fins is being implemented through SINAC (the National System of Conservation Areas under The Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE)) and Misión Tiburón being piloted in Guanacaste province, a major hub for scuba diving and snorkelling in Costa Rica.

Implementation Partners

Voices from the network

Green Fins serves as a tool for local communities to move towards a more sustainable use of their dive sites; so that they can maintain their scenic beauty and biological richness to provide livelihoods for many generations to come.
Mauricio Méndez Venegas
Technical Director of National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC)

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