The battle to get to the bottom of what happened last week at the Preciosa and Platanares beaches continues. For our part, we are developing information about the flora of this unique habitat and hope to make this, and other site-based ecology files, available via our official LCO website. This is not going to change the unnecessary damage that has already been done, but could help to prevent similar ocurrances elsewhere in the future. This image shows the impressive stands of Bromelia plumieri (Bromeliaceae), which are a distinctive element of the coastal ecosystem in this particular location. It is just one of a number of plant species that were affected last week, when the Municipality of Golfito cleared out vast swathes of the local vegetation in order to make way for what, from the size of it, looks to be a future highway on the beachfront.
