In a country and an age in which claims to being “green” are as common on hotel brochures as telephone numbers, it’s nice to know some people really mean it. According to experts, green or sustainable ...

Thanks to its efforts to truly become a responsible Costa Rican tourist destination, the Selva Bananito Lodge, tucked in the foothills of the Talamanca Mountains south of the Caribbean port of Limón, ...

Selva Bananito sits within the borders of land originally purchased by Jurgen's father Rudi in 1974 for farming. In 1994, the family decided to set aside two-thirds of yet-unfarmed land to establish a ...

IT USED TO BE ENOUGH FOR TOURISTS staying at hotels in wilderness areas to “do no harm”—that is, to leave the outdoors the way they found it. But since the very existence of a resort operation, no ...