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Honoring Costa Rica’s Vast Rainforests

Posted on June 4, 2021

Home is Where the Heart is… and for Half a Million Species the Heart of the Costa Rican Rainforest is Where They Have Chosen to Call Home.

A rainforest so large that it now covers 75% of the country in its dense, verdant, and tropical ecosystem.

But it wasn’t always like this.

In fact, between 1950-1960 the percentage of forest cover decreased dramatically. And by 1987, only 21 percent of the country was covered in rainforest. Costa Rica was at the tipping point.

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Posted in Featured, Tips & Tall Tales Tagged conservation, Rainforests

Meet Farm Wildlife: The Three-Toed Sloth

Posted on July 12, 2018

Learn More About our Furry Friends

Wildlife Three-Toed Sloth

Chestnut Hill Farms is located in Costa Rica, just over the hill from Tortuguero National Park, or the “Costa Rican Amazon”. With abundant rainfall each year, our farms are able to thrive in this lush environment that supports a variety of wildlife. Chestnut Hill Farms maintains over 275 hectares of forest reserve, which serves as a home to three species of monkeys, the three-toed sloth, many classes of birds including toucans and parrots, deer, wild turkey and jaguars.