The nature reserve Los Guatuzos in the border region of Nicaragua and Costa Rica is a wetland full of life: three-toed sloths, puffing snakes, greater white-lined bats and a vast world of birds are to be found here. Since 1990, the last year of the Sandinista government, it has been a protected region. Yet a Nicaraguan nature conservation organisation has recently launched numerous projects to enable the people once again to live off the treasures of the rivers and the rainforest south of Lake Nicaragua without destroying them. 36 volcanic islands form the Solentiname archipelago in the south-east of this lake, the largest in Central America. On one of them olivaceous cormorants spend the night, while the extremely rare yellow-naped amazons have chosen others as their nocturnal places of rest, and from almost all islands one can hear the song of the Montezuma oropendola. For over four decades now the fauna and flora of these pearls of the jungle in Lake Nicaragua have been a source of inspiration for artists. Nicaraguan and Costa-Rican reserves in the border region of the two countries are now to be combined into a joint Peace Park. "SI-A-PAZ": "Yes to peace" - a vast Peace Park in the centre of America.
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Key Information
Original Title | Perlen des Regenwaldes: Ein Friedenspark in der Mitte Amerikas - Der Nicaragua-See und der Rio San Juan |
Genre |
Animals/Wildlife |
Produced by: | Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk |
Year Of Production | 2005 |
Duration | 00h52h00h00 min |
Country Of Origin | Germany |
Language Versions | German [OV] |
Cast & Crew
Director/s | Cornelia Volk & Frank Eckert |
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Writer/s | Cornelia Volk & Frank Eckert |