🌿 Environment 1d ago · Liz Kimbrough

13 peccaries sail home to heal a Costa Rican forest

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13 peccaries sail home to heal a Costa Rican forest
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It’s after midnight, and veterinarian Dennise Ortiz Angulo is in the middle of Golfo Dulce, surrounded by shooting stars, bioluminescent water, and 13 boar-like beasts. “That moment, it felt like the movie Life of Pi,” Ortiz told Mongabay. After years of preparation, hours of fast-paced decision-making, and a tedious truck drive, Ortiz, 13 white-lipped peccaries (Tayassu pecari), and a few other humans were midway through a voyage from Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula to Piedra

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