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Rare Leatherback Turtles Gain Protection in Costa Rica

source: National Geographic News | Mar 15, 08 | submitted by Pat Coate

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."
- Gabriela Blanco, monitoring-station head

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