In 2010, Gerardo Rivera, founder of InBio (the national biodiversity institute of Costa Rica) performed a 10-month botanical inventory at Finca Bellavista. The section of rainforest that he researched was approximately 300 acres of secondary growth rainforest, which is in recovery after three decades of clear-cutting, over-grazing and erosion.
This inventory, considered to be a partial inventory of this secondary growth zone, has over 900 plant species, 5 of which are new to science.
Finca Bellavista botanical inventory