ESTACIÓN LAS TORTUGAS

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News and Video Footage:

Interview with Stanley Rodriguez Mendez, the founder of the Estación las Tortugas:
Video of leatherback hatchlings returning tothe sea:

Seattle Times article on Estacion Las Tortugas:

Proteting Sea Turtles in Costa Rica: September 27, 2006

Sea Turtles Protected in Costa Rica are Killed in Nicaragua: July 26, 2005

Gallery:

The kitchen and measuring area The first hatchery of the season The education center

 

    
Turtle specimens in the
education center
Measuring a leatherback
hatchling with a calibrator
The tools used to measure
and weigh the hatchlings

A volunteer helps a hatchling
to the ocean

     

Inside looking out from a
volunteer cabin
A covered area where education
courses are presented.
 The resident biologist teaching a
student group.

The boat trip through the canal
to the reserve.

One of the beautiful flowers that
flourish at the reserve.
  A sloth hanging in the tree
tops along the canal.		   A white face monkey, one
of the three local monkeys
in the area		  

A student group setting loose baby
hatchlings to the sea.

A nesting Leatherback crawls ashore.

  
Canal leading to the reserve.
      
 

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