Costa Rica has won international acclaim for its initiatives to restore its forests. But those successes are now jeopardized by conflicts over the government’s failure to return traditional lands to the Indigenous people who are regarded as the best forest stewards.
A Costa Rican court sentenced a man to 22 years behind bars on Wednesday for the murder of an indigenous leader in a 2020 land dispute, a case that has stoked decades-old tensions between native communities and farmers over disputed territory.