Costa Rica Banned Sport Hunting in 2012

The colón takes its name from Cristóbal Colón, the Spanish name for Columbus.

It is now quiet, but the conical volcano remains one of Costa Rica's best-known landmarks.

Forest cover fell to roughly a quarter of the country in the 1980s and has since recovered to more than half.

Despite covering only a tiny fraction of the planet's land, its rainforests, cloud forests and coasts host extraordinary biodiversity.