President Luis Guillermo Solís signed a decree on 6 March to ratify the new Costa Rican National Wetlands Policy (NWP), initiated in August 2015. The new law seeks to recover and maintain wetlands that have suffered deterioration and aims at accomplishing conservation through a balance of socioeconomic development and environmental protection. The day after Solís signed the decree, alongside the environment and energy minister Edgar Gutiérrez, and the planning minister Olga Martha Sánchez, the president of Costa Rica’s federation for environmental conservation (Fecon), Mauricio Álvarez, argued that these goals remained a long way off, claiming that thousands of hectares of forest ecosystem had been felled in recent years for the pineapple industry.End of preview - This article contains approximately 913 words.
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