Costa Rican trail opens a path to cash for nature and people

A view of the Ave Sol River Sanctuary and the River Pacuare with the Turrialba volcano in the background. All this is found along the Camino de Costa Rica trail. — Pigment-Ink/Wikimedia Commons

A clatter of bird call erupts and a few berries fall from the forest canopy high overhead, dislodged by toucans.

Indigenous guide Osvaldo Martinez stoops to pick them up and presses them in his hand to release a pungent scent like cinnamon.