National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC, Spanish : Sistema Nacional de Áreas de Conservación ) is part of the Ministry of Environment and Energy (MINAE) of Costa Rica . It is the administrator for the nation's national parks, conservation areas, and other protected natural areas.
2-879: Osa Conservation Area is an administrative area which is managed by SINAC for the purposes of conservation in Costa Rica , on the southern Pacific coast region. It contains two National Parks , and numerous Wildlife refuges and other types of nature reserve . This Costa Rican protected area article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . SINAC Created in 1994, it combined three previously separate organisations that had managed laws relating to national parks , wildlife , and forestry . SINAC oversees over 160 protected areas, of which 30 are designated National Parks. Other areas are designated wildlife refuges, biological reserves, national monuments, forest reserves, national wetlands, and protected zones. The entire country of 12,596,690 acres (50,977 km²)
4-506: Is under the jurisdiction of eleven large Conservation Areas which were created in 1998, overseen by divisions of SINAC. Over 25% of the national territory, i.e. 3,221,636 acres (13,037 km²) is included in the national parks, refuges, and protected zones within these eleven Conservation Areas. Costa Rica's progressive policies on environmental protection and sustainable eco-tourism in the National Parks System have been lauded as
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