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.
You may have read in one of the earlier posts on our blog that plastic bags can be extremely harmful to leatherbacks and other marine animals. Check out this article from the New York Times to see what the Irish have done to reduce the number of plastic bags in their country. Ms. O'Doherty you should be very proud of your homeland!
posted by Fiona O'Doherty & Jennifer Seshadri @ 6:30 PM
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The Live from the Field program is made possible by a generous grant from the National Geographic Education Foundation:
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2 Comments:
People can try to stop using plastic bags and throwing them into the ocean. maybe the neigborhood could add in a couple extra trash cans so no one throws theirs in the ocean. also, supermarkets can stop selling plastic bags and they could just use paper. also, you could try to bring your own REUSABLE bags to the grocery store, to avoid using plastic ones.
ariana
I really understand we should be bringing our regular bags from home and stop using plastic bags because it is very harmful to the leatherback turtles. That is one thing that i am going to do, bring my own bag, not plastic, to the grocery store and put all of my groceries in there.
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