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I just looked over the Bellavista web site. They are  pushing land almost totally covered with rainforest and rather big lots where they promise to build "treehouses".  Real treehouses up in the canopy is a dangerous idea since rainforest trees are shallow rooted and very subject to blow downs.These people are really talking about houses up on stilts close to trees or with a tree built into their construction. Same problem when a tree falls. Many big rainforest trees have large limbs covered in tons of epiphytes, some big tank plants with gallons of water in them. When one of these limbs gets too heavy and breaks off, woe be to anything underneath.

Costa Rica has a concept now built into law to allow residences in forest areas. It is seriously defective. You are allowed big lots of various acres but only one house per lot and most of the land untouched. This works to protect the plants but much of the animal life leaves, scared by human habitation everywhere.

I have lived in Costa Rica for 43 years and spent a lot of time in the forest. Only once in that time have I ever seen a tapir in the wild and it ran as fast as it could. Generally, wildlife is frightened of humans and with good reason.

Real ecocommunities would tell you about exactly where they are, how far above sea level, how they will be run, how their food and energy will be produced, etc., without BS about solar panels in dense rainforest!

Roy Lent