Costa Rica Rain Forest

NATGEO SCIENTIST TO RESEARCH COSTA RICAN RAINFOREST

National Geographic biographer and researcher, Rally Horn, will study the impact of human activity and climate change on the Costa Rican rainforests. Horn is a US citizen and graduate from the University of Tennessee (United States).The scientists said that she chose Costa Rica because “it is known worldwide for its biological diversity.” Her studies have focused primarily in the highlands of the Talamanca range, San Vito and Buenos Aires in Puntarenas and Guanacaste.Horn came to the country for the first time in 1982 to study. She then did her thesis on Costa Rica. “More than 30 students and professors have come to help me (to Costa Rica) on research expeditions or to do their own studies of the impact of humans on the country and climate change,” said Horn.