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The weather here, used to be like this all year.
It was always rainy and very cold.
And look, now we're in the wet season, it isn't cold, no rain.
In the dry season it's 30 degrees [86º F] and really, really dry.
I work on a farm, a dairy farm.
Here we also grow beans, fruits, oranges, lemons...
and there's mangos all over the place.
Monteverde, there's a lot of change.
When I was small there were perhaps, 4000 people.
In Monteverde now, there could be 10,000 people,
not including the tourists.
Foreigners came here looking to buy and the Costa Ricans saw the money.
So, with all the money, they sold out and now they can't buy back in.
In Monteverde now, you'll find homes built over streams,
homes on the sides of the mountains.
Roads? They have to cut down trees and take down mountains.
It's not right.
Every day new people arrive and we need to think about them
because the climate warming.
It's changing and if we don't think ahead…
we won't be able to do anything.
"Monteverde Now: Voices from the Frontlines of Change"
is a collection of personal stories and professional observations
from those who live and work in cloud forest.
It's about nature.
About people.
About climate and about change.
And while you may be thousands of miles from Monteverde...
it's about you.
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Your voice matters.