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Protecting rainforests: Costa Rica

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Costa Rica runs a scheme called payments for environmental services (PSA). Which option says what the scheme does?

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Find Costa Rica, read how its forest cover has changed, and explain how laws, payments and ecotourism protect its forests. Then decide how far the approach has worked, compared with Brazil.

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Lesson outline

  1. Hook
  2. Do Now — Retrieval
  3. Keywords for This Lesson
  4. Locating Costa Rica
  5. Forest cover in Costa Rica and Brazil
  6. I Do — How payments for environmental services work
  7. Hinge Check
  8. Sort the strategies
  9. The strategies
  10. Describe and compare the forest lines
  11. Self-Check
  12. Explain how far Costa Rica's approach has worked
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