Green Fins guest blog: "Bringing Green Fins to my home country, Costa Rica"

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In November 2021, Costa Rica joined the Green Fins network as an active location, alongside 13 other countries choosing to implement the Green Fins Code of Conduct. Costa Rica is the first country on the American continent to adopt Green Fins environmental standards to reduce the threats associated with diving and snorkelling on marine ecosystems.

We had a chat with Jula, Creative Consultant at The Reef-World Foundation (the UK charity that spearheads the Green Fins initiative around the world). Alongside one of the directors of Reef-World, JJ, she travelled to Costa Rica to train a group of passionate local Government and NGO staff to become Green Fins assessors. Jula is from Costa Rica herself but has worked around the world and is now based in the UK. We chatted to her about what it was like to get back into fieldwork post-pandemic, visiting her homeland to introduce Green Fins and the challenges unique to Costa Rica regarding conservation….