Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Log Blog Part 1 NOTE: I hope you enjoy this blog series, AND I also hope you will take action to protect the wildlife...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 About Cocos Island: Part 2 Before dusk, some 30 hours later, I hear the boat engines turned off, eagerly awaiting sunrise and my first...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog Part 3 Sharks and Rays Scalloped hammerhead surrounded by a myriad of smaller fish (photo by Kaylam Pratt.) The iconic species...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog FISH! Part 4 So what are all those sharks eating? Cocos Island’s high productivity is fueled by upwellings created by the...
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Cocos Island Expedition --- August-September 2024 Cocos Log Blog Research Team Part 5 Our ongoing research at Cocos is focused on understanding the migration and ecology of endangered sharks, turtles...
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Chance of a Lifetime to Participate on a Cocos Island Shark Tagging Research Expedition! Join Todd Steiner, Executive Director of Turtle Island and our Costa Rican colleague Randall Arauz as…
by Todd Steiner Cocos Expeditions with Turtle Island Are Back! We are excited to announce that Turtle Island will resume our scuba research expeditions at Cocos in 2023! Please join…
This December 10-20, 2022, a special expedition to Cocos Island National Park and two neighboring Seamounts will take place. A collaboration of the Costa Rican organization CREMA, Turtle Island Restoration…
This article, written by César Peñaherrera and Mariano Castro Jiménez, was originally published in La Nación on March 18, 2021. Peñaherrera is the Science Coordinator at MigraMar and scientific advisor…
Contact: Brett Loveman, Director of Communications Mission Blue bloveman@mission-blue.org Todd Steiner, Founder and Executive Director Turtle Island Restoration Network tsteiner@seaturtles.org World’s First Marine Migratory Species Hope Spot Declared Between Cocos…