Original sentence: After the elections the new Nicaraguan government reduced and carved up these blocks of land between 1997 to 1999, which then became a number of new and much smaller reserves.It also occurs and is protected in Los Katíos National Park  bordering Darién in Panama, Paramillo National Park, Sanquianga National Park and in southwest of the country in Farallones de Cali National Park.It is common in Utría National Natural Park along the Pacific coast.Much of this land was actually set aside in 1987 to be governed by the indigenous population of these regions, such as the Rama and Kriol people, which has created legal conflict.The new "biological corridor plan" entailed the creation of the Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge in Costa Rica in 2005, which helps connect the six previously existing protected areas of the Tortuguero National Park and La Selva Biological Station in the Cordillera Central in Costa Rica, with the Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge, the Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve, Punta Gorda Natural Reserve and the Cerro Silva Natural Reserve in Nicaragua, thereby allowing animals to move between the regions.The plan was considered a success in 2012.This plan had first been proposed in 1985 by the first revolutionary Sandinista government in the midst of the US-sponsored insurgency of the Contras, as an "international ecological peace park", but discussions with the Costa Rican government collapsed, so instead Nicaragua established the vast "Áreas Naturales Protegidas del Sureste de Nicaragua" in the southeast, and a similar block of land in the northeast bordering Honduras
Edited sentence: The biological corridor is important to the great green macaw and hundreds of other species because it maintains the connectivity between neighbouring regions of Costa Rica and Nicaragua.The park connects the mountains of the Cordillera Central and the La Selva Biological Station (125,691 hectares), the Barra del Colorado Wildlife Refuge (102,165 hectares), Tortuguero National Park (29,068 hectares), the Indio-Maíz Biological Reserve (306,980 hectares), Punta Gorda Natural Reserve (54,900 hectares) and the Cerro Silva Natural Reserve (339,400 hectares), thereby unifying these six protected areas and allowing animals to move between the regions.The plan reduced the rate of deforestation and was considered a success in 2012.This plan included the creation of the Maquenque National Wildlife Refuge in 2005, which covers 54,000 hectares of breeding ground for the macaw