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 Rica’s ...

Olive Ridley turtles coming ashore to lay eggs in Mexico. Adults weight about 100 lbs (45 kg), while hatchlings weigh less than 1 ounce (28 g). Besides being beautiful, Costa Rica's beaches are the ...

The C-G Swimway is a novel approach to marine conservation first introduced by my organization, Turtle Island Restoration ...

This is the horrifying moment a jaguar eats a leatherback turtle for supper in the middle of a beach. In the clip, posted on Instagram, the big cat can be seen chewing on the head of the motionless ...

A leatherback turtle called Billie won the first Great Turtle Race from Costa Rica to the Galapagos Islands, swimming at a leisurely 5 to 6 kilometres per hour, organisers say. Satellite tracking of ...

(MENAFN- Costa Rica News) Tortuguero, located in the northwest of Costa Rica and on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, is one of those places that every nature lover should visit at least once in their ...

San Jose, Mar 30 (EFE).San Jose, Mar 30 (EFE). — Several unidentified young men dragged a green sea turtle behind a vehicle through a street somewhere on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast and later ...

Activists working to protect sea turtles have once again been attacked in Costa Rica. On June 4, volunteers working with the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society interrupted a poacher in the act ...

Aha, maybe we have just discovered why the sea turtle is going extinct & it is not global warming. !!!!!.... Sending you an e-mail of the turtle poachers on the beaches of Costa Rica. See the 2nd ...

Update: Eight people were arrested in connection to Jairo Mora Sandoval’s murder on 31 July. Investigators have described the suspects as members of a local criminal gang and suggested that the ...