Manatees in Costa Rica
The manatee, an endangered species, has become a national symbol of Costa Rica thanks to the initiative of children.
Yes, it was the children of a school in the Caribbean region of "Limoncito" (little lemon) who took the initiative of presenting the authorities with a project to make this large aquatic mammal a national symbol in 2014.
A school's initiative
It all began when the children at this school on Costa Rica's Atlantic coast were preparing a science project. They discovered that the manatee (also known as the Manati) was a species...
