| The Cabo Blanco Park is the clearest example that forests can be regenerated if efforts toward conservation are pursued. This great park, extending for 1250 hectares in the outer tip of the Nicoya peninsula, was mainly composed of devastated lands by indiscriminate deforestation in the 1960's when the park was created. Now, it's a fully regenerated secondary forest full of huge native trees of all species and abundant wildlife. The park can be explored by following several paths that are available to visitors. The longest trail is about 3.5 km. long and takes you to the beach right in front of the Cabo Blanco Island. But the park also protects all marine life around its shoreline and the around the island of Cabo Blanco which extends 1 km. out from its complete shoreline (1800 additional hectares of marine area). The Cabo Blanco island is an incredible rookery for all sorts of marine birds. The island has the greatest colony of Brown Bobby birds in Central America, and also mantains the largest population of pelicans in the Nicoya Peninsula. The Cabo Blanco Park is a living example that existing ecosystems can be restored when there is the determination and will to let nature take its course.
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