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…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 12, 2024 Contact: Todd Steiner, Turtle Island Restoration Network, 415-488-7652, tsteiner@tirn.net Alejandro Olivera, (202) 849-8403, aolivera@biologicaldiversity.org Galapagos Islands Needs World Heritage ‘In Danger’ Status, Groups Say...
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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…
California’s Leatherback Conservation Day became law in 2012, thanks to the work of then Turtle Island Restoration Network (TIRN) lead campaigner Teri Shore, who first proposed it and found state…