Endangered Species

Costa Rica has so much to offer visitors as it is home to over 200 native species. Well, like many other countries in Latin America, the lack of infrastructure has brought pollution and problems for these species. Although the infrastructure is increasingly getting better, it still isn’t enough for many species. As of 2000 there are 14 species endangered in this country.

Here is a list of some of the animals/species that are threatened:
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Critically Endangered: Harris’s Rice Water Rat

Endangered: Dice’s Cottontail
Harris’s Olingo
Red-backed Squirrel Monkey (pictured below)

Vulnerable:   American Manatee (pictured below)
                      Central American Tapir (pictured below)
                      Central American Woolly Opossum
                       Giant Anteater
                       Lemurime Night Monkey
                       Rodriquez’s Harvest Mouse
                      Sperm Whale
                       Tacarcuna bat
                      Talamancan Samll-eared Shrew
                     Van Gelder’s Bat

monkey mantatee