Populations of critically endangered Pacific leatherback sea turtles continue to slide toward extinction due primarily to capture and death as bycatch in commercial fisheries, according to the new IUCN Red List assessment by the world’s leading sea turtle scientists.
This is unbelievable, but I’m in Cocos Island and I have internet access! I’m on board the Proteus, a surveillance boat owned by Marviva, a Costa Rican marine conservation organization…
As part of a research program to understand the ecology and movements of sharks and turtles within and beyond the borders of Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park (Cocos), participants spent nine days at Cocos capturing and tagging sea turtles and sharks.
New scientific research has confirmed fears of the global impacts of marine plastic pollution to marine life and marine ecosystems. Plastic does adsorb toxic PCBs, PBDEs and PAHs* from seawater…
For Immediate Release: November 9th, 2013 Todd Steiner, TSteiner@SeaTurtles.org Gandoca, Costa Rica — In an emotional reunion, Todd Steiner, Executive Director of Turtle Island Restoration Network, delivered a check for over…
