LIMÓN, Costa Rica, June 5, 2013 (ENS) – Costa Rican environmentalist Jairo Mora Sandoval was murdered on May 30, while attempting to protect leatherback turtle nests on Moín Beach, on Costa ...

Costa Rica is Sea Turtle heaven. With 5 of the worlds 7 species choosing to nest here, it is important to keep its oceans and nesting beaches clean. Nesting turtles travel great distances (up to ...

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: The horrifying clip, taken in Costa Rica's Tortuguero National Park, shows a big cat chomping on the head of a stricken leatherback turtle just metres from the sea.

A mass abduction on an idyllic beach in Costa Rica has concluded with happy endings — 736 of them. Poachers snatched hundreds of sea turtle eggs from nests along Costa Rica’s southern coast, a ...

Costa Ricans thanked the petulance of a neighboring dictator for an elegant revision of the national diet. It used to consist chiefly of beef. ... COSTA RICA: Turn to Turtle.

A mass abduction on an idyllic beach in Costa Rica has concluded with happy endings - 736 of them. Poachers snatched hundreds of sea turtle eggs from nests along Costa Rica’s southern coast, a ...

Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast has seen a recent increase in leatherbacks, but those conservation projects also have their dangers. While studying the turtles in 1990, the researchers who started the ...

Located on Costa Rica’s northeast Caribbean coast, Tortuguero National Park protects a large area of lowland tropical rain forest as well as the sea turtles that give the park its name ...

Around 28% of the land in Costa Rica is protected — due in no small part to the fact the country is home to a whopping 30 national parks. From a former prison site to a turtle-nesting hotspot ...

In Costa Rica, the poachers who killed the turtle Torres found have since been caught and are awaiting trial. Torres says that while he’s noticed an uptick in poachers from surrounding towns ...