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Weather you are traveling in Costa Rica or in any other natural area in the world, please keep in mind the following suggestions, in order to diminish your impact on fragile environments.
As a responsible tourist you should:
 Enjoy nature but don't chase or touch wild animals
Leave everything, as you found it, don't remove anything that is part of natural environment such as rocks, shells or plants.
Stay on the trails, trails are designed to prevent the erosion caused by the transit of humans on the soil.
Encourage responsible behavior on your family and others. 
Report environmental damage to authorities.
Participate in local conservation activities .
Please, don't feed the wildlife:
Wildlife is highly susceptible to diseases from human hands. They can actually die form bacteria transferred off your hand that has no ill effect on you.
Irregular feeding leads to an aggressive behavior towards humans and other species.
When we feed an animal, we are actually affecting his natural diet. Fruits, especially those containing pesticides, can be upsetting to the wildlife delicate digestive system and cause serious dental problems that can lead to eventual death.
Feeding creates a dangerous dependency on humans that diminishes the wildlife survival abilities.
Feeding interferes with the wildlife natural habits and upsets the balance on their lifestyle.
Contact with humans facilitates poaching and the trade in illegal wildlife.
Please, help us spread the word, be an ecotourist by explaining your fellow companions about this.
Please let nature take its own course!
Coral Etiquette: Whether you swim, snorkel, scuba, or freedive; please help protect our reefs.
Corals are colonies of very small animals which may take hundreds of years to form the structures visible today. Simply touching corals to see what they feel like can cause the death of an entire colony.
Don't walk upon or stand on coral, as this can kill the living coral polyps that are the builders of the reef structure.
If a diver, practice buoyancy control skills before diving on any sensitive environment.
Make sure you are not dragging your gauges.
Don't touch, pickup or hold reef inhabitants, and never pull octopus from their habitats.
Whales Etiquette: Take the following precautions and respectful steps will assure that whale-watching can continue for future generations. .
When approaching whales in an area, stay visible by approaching from the side, not from the front or rear
Keep a safe distance of at least 100 meters from the whales 
Move at the same speed and in the same direction as the whales, and avoid sudden changes of speed and direction.
Keep noise level down and spend no more than 30 minutes at a time within the whales' range
Finally, be considerate to other whale-watchers.
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