Our group’s guide, naturalist and all-around Costa Rica expert Marco Fallas, teamed up with Playa Ostional guide Maria Aviles to introduce us to the ways of sea turtles.

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 Efforts Costa Rica, a stalwart in sea turtle conservation efforts since the 1950s, has emerged as a global leader in safeguarding these marine species. The country has implemented ...

What: Nighttime turtle viewing at Las Baulas National Marine Park, nesting beach for leatherbacks, the world's largest reptile. Where: Playa Grande, along Costa Rica's "northern" Pacific coast ...

The refuge, located along the beaches of Ostional, Nosara, Pelada and Guiones in the country’s Guanacaste province, is a protected area and critical nesting ground for various sea turtle species in ...

When the sea turtles hatch, they return the babies to the beach. Another sea turtle makes its way back to the water off the coast of Costa Rica. (Courtesy of Claudio Quesada-Rodríguez) ...

Flooding of nests in some those areas are expected by 2050, the researchers said. Lora sea turtles leave the sea to lay their eggs in nests at Ostional Beach, near San Jose, Costa Rica, Nov. 9, 2015.

Stark threats to sea turtles, including nesting populations The most commonly targeted fish, mahi mahi, was also the most common species caught in the Costa Rican longline fishery. But the researchers ...

The leatherback, the biggest of all sea turtles, is critically endangered due to development on its nesting beaches, rising sea levels caused by climate change and incidental captures in fisheries.

I also look forward to introducing elements of Costa Rican culture into my classroom.” Belfry teacher Alex Knows His Gun will travel to Costa Rica to study sea turtles. LARRY MAYER, BILLINGS GAZETTE ...