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• Protests and Legal Challenges Halt Major Tourism Development in Guanacaste’s Papagayo Gulf

  Published: Apr 25, 2026

  Section: Environment

  A high-stakes conflict between environmental conservation and large-scale tourism development has reached the highest levels of the Costa Rican judiciary. Following intense protest...

• Costa Rica’s High Court Orders Immediate Moratorium on Papagayo Gulf Hotel Project Amid Environmental Legal Challenge

  Published: Apr 20, 2026

  Section: Environment

  Investigating magistrate Fernando Cruz of the Constitutional Chamber has issued a precautionary suspension of tree-felling and construction permits for a hotel development in the P...