Our team will conduct studies on the behavior, physiology and migration patterns of the leatherback turtles on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. We will help tag and identify turtles, record nest locations and help determine hatchling success. Researchers and scientists have been working with these turtles in for the past 17 years in attempt to understand the impact of human activities and pollution. This work has led to the establishment of a National Park and a Marine Biology field station.
Thank you all so much for following our blog the past few weeks and for posting great comments. Follow the link below to watch our morning turtle returning to sea.
posted by Fiona O'Doherty & Jennifer Seshadri @ 7:09 PM
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3 Comments:
thats so cool that you guys got to see that! i wish i was in costa rica right now! have a safe trip back home!
ariana
Are you proud of the impact that your work has made on the turtles and how/when will you find out if the survival rate has gone up because of your efforts?
-Clemence White
Hi Clemence -I really feel like made a contibution to a critically endangered species and what I did will have a direct impact on its survival. So, yes, I'm very proud of the work we did. 27 new turtles nested on the beach - many of them hatchlings released when the project originally started. The next few years will really tell what impact the project has had since a lot of those young hatchlings released years ago are now reaching maturity and will begin to nest.
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