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Follow a turtle race on the Web
San Jose, Costa Rica - Biologists will switch on satellite trackers strapped to the backs of 11 female leatherback turtles on Monday, starting what conservationists have dubbed the 'Great Turtle Race' to raise awareness of a species threatened with extinction.
Internet users can log on to http://www.greatturtlerace.com, read about the turtles and then track them over the next two weeks as they complete their migration to the islands off the Ecuadorean coast, according to the event's organizers, headed by Washington, D.C.-based Conservation International.