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Rare Leatherback Turtles Gain Protection in Costa Rica |
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Playa Grande, Costa Rica - As dawn breaks on Playa Grande, the light reveals shallow sand pits where leatherback sea turtles laid their eggs the night before.
This Costa Rican beach, a 2-mile-long (3.2-kilometer-long) stretch of sand popular with surfers, is guarded around the clock by a small army of biologists and volunteers from the Leatherback Trust, a nonprofit group working to save the world's largest sea turtles from extinction.
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"This is the most important nesting beach for leatherbacks in the eastern Pacific." |
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