Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves
The location of this unique site in Central America, where Quaternary glaciers have left their mark, has allowed the fauna and flora of North and South America to interbreed. Tropical rainforests cover most of the area.
Reviews
Paul Babladelis (USA):
Parque La Amistad has also been called a peace park by Dr. Oscar Arias, past president of Costa Rica and Nobel Peace Prize winner. As a peace park it has functions beyond conservation or preservation. By presidential declaration (both Costa Rica and Panama) it is dedicated to serving as a working example of peace between neighboring countries and also to fostering sustainable development in buffer zones of the park.
The east and west entrances to the park are radically differnt from one another.
The park is a treasure.
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- Talamanca Range-La Amistad Reserves/ La Amistad National Park
- Year: 1983
- Country: Costa Rica Panama
- Category: Natural landscape, Forest
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Reasons for inscription
News and links:
» UN delegation visited La Amistad after receiving a petition by conservation and indigenous organizations to declare La Amistad as a World Heritage site "in danger" (26-02-2008).
» Today the Center for Biological Diversity and more than 30 other organizations from the United States and Panama petitioned the World Heritage Committee to list La Amistad International Park as a World Heritage site “In Danger” due to the planned construction of four controversial hydroelectric dams. The United States-based AES Corporation is pushing forward with plans to construct a series of hydroelectric dams in the Changuinola River basin of Panama, putting the exceptional natural values of La Amistad at great risk. The Changuinola River flows from the heart of La Amistad and is one of the only free-flowing rivers remaining in Central America. The four dams would permanently alter more than 600 miles of stream and flood significant areas of tribal land. (24-04-2007).