A quiet beach under a moonlit sky. The sand stirs faintly, as if the Earth itself is stretching after a nap. Out of nowhere, ...

Chad and Claire. Watching Turtles Lay Eggs in Tortuguero, Costa Rica 🇨🇷. Posted: April 4, 2025 | Last updated: April 4, 2025. Tortuguero is the turtle paradise of Costa Rica!

Calling the police, oddly enough, would turn out to be a repeat theme on a most unusual turtle tour on a muggy night in August. We disembarked somewhere on the other side of Tortuguero village and ...

Named after the Spanish tortuga, meaning turtle, the main attraction in Tortuguero, Costa Rica is the endangered green sea turtles, who come to nest in the black volcanic sands of the park’s 11 ...

Tortuguero, one of the world’s best places to see nesting sea turtles, is the smallest of towns. On our first morning, we watched a short film narrated by the director of the Sea Turtle Conservancy.

These hushed words came from our seasoned turtle guide, Marco, as he lead a group of us along a moonlit beach path toward what we hoped would be a very special experience. HOME. MAIL.

Tortuguero (literally, "place of the turtles") is the largest green sea turtle nesting area in the Western Hemisphere. Legend has it that when Christopher Columbus docked here in 1502, he wrote ...

The Grupo Tortuguero Comcáac, the Sea Turtle Group of the Comcáac people, in El Desemboque de los Seris is fighting to increase the population of sea turtles, a sacred animal, in the Gulf of ...

Only in Costa Rica, perhaps, might a community unreachable by road be one of the country’s top tourist draws. And only in Costa Rica would residents – most of them, at least – actively fight the ...

Nichols, a wildlife and biology doctoral student doing research in the area, with the opportunity to involve fishermen in conservation efforts that could prevent overfishing and, in the process, help ...