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L’acqua Viva Resort helps preserve coastline at Playa Guiones, Costa Rica

Tree planting L'acqua VivaThere is a new arrival this month at L’acqua Viva Resort & Spa at Playa Guiones. A fledgling Kapok tree (Ceibo Barrigón) has been planted close to the parking area of the hotel. The Kapok joins an extensive garden of trees already surrounding the Nosara hotel, and is a symbol of L’acqua Viva Resort’s partnership with Green Coasts Conservation Association (La Asociación Conservacionista Costas Verdes).

The Costa Rica luxury hotel follows an extensive sustainability program and is a Gold sponsor of the organization, which is working to reforest the coastline of Playa Guiones.

Planting trees on Playa Guiones, image by BarriGuiones Coastal Reforestation ProjectGreen Coasts Conservation Association, a nonprofit NGO in Costa Rica, is dedicated to conserving and restoring coastal ecosystems in Costa Rica by strategically reforesting beaches with native species of trees. Since its founding in 2008, the organization so far has projects on Hermosa Beach by Jacó on the Central Pacific Coast, the restoration project at Playa Guiones by Nosara in Guanacaste, and a large nursery for native species starter trees.

BarriGuiones Reforestation Project in Playa Guiones Costa RicaThe coastal reforestation project at Playa Guiones – called BarriGuiones – began in 2011. Many native trees have already been planted with the goal to reforest approximately seven kilometers along the beachfront. Like many beaches in Guanacaste, Costa Rica, Playa Guiones doesn’t have much shade. The coastline is lined with long grasses, shrubbery, very-low-to-the-ground stubby trees and some tall palm trees here and there. The region had been deforested for cattle and other livestock in the 1960s, along with much of the rest of the Guanacaste Coast.

Reforesting the beaches not only brings much-needed shade from the blazing tropical sun, it also helps control erosion and re-introduces food sources for local wildlife.

The small staff of Green Coasts Conservation Association attains its success by actively involving the local communities, schools and businesses for economic support, education and volunteers. L’acqua Viva Resort provides considerable information to hotel guests about the activities of the association and promotes involvement.

Playa Guiones at Nosara, Costa RicaPlaya Guiones at Nosara is renowned for some of the best surfing in Costa Rica and a competition location for the national surfing circuit, the uncrowded white sand beach was recommended as one of the best places to go in 2014 by CNN and National Geographic.

Article by Shannon Farley

 

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