The Bribri leader explains how, in her village of Yorkin, just upriver from the Caribbean coast, she’s brought back the Bribri language from the brink of extinction, creating a sustainable tourism destination in the process, says Jamie Lafferty from National Geographic Traveller.

Now, with tourists coming here, we have other forms of employment — we need people to drive the boats, work in the kitchens and to be guides in the forest. We still harvest cacao, of course, but it’s no longer the only thing here.
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