Yes, you are fortunate to be born in Costa Rica and live there.
Costa Rica is one of nature's spectacles. But it could have gone the other way. I am thinking now of Haitian poverty and the Myanmar coup. Or a mining company might have destroyed those Costa Rican mountains by now.
Ecotourism and National Parks are the best hope for wildlife. And then I think you still must have apparently clean CR politics.
I believe most scientists agree that the Blue Whale is the largest animal to ever live on the planet, up to 200 tons and over 100 feet in length. And don't they still winter around that thermal dome? Sadly, it is in danger of extinction. With all the problems the biosphere has now, the biomass of the krill populations hold up or...