Saving an Ancient Race: Costa Rica Sea Turtles

Saving an Ancient Race: Costa Rica Sea Turtles: "Conservation groups and researchers have begun tagging pelagic turtles like the green sea turtle in remote places like Costa Rica's Cocos Island. Some turtles are fitted with flipper tags while others bear satellite transmitters in an effort to monitor their movements and we now know that some species travel thousands and thousands of miles of oceans, from tropical waters to the deep waters off Newfoundland, Canada.

Cocos Island is one of Costa Rica's Seven Wonders, an uninhabited island halfway to the Galapagos. It's also under consideration as one of the World's Seven Natural Wonders and for a lucky few, a Costa Rica vacation Cocos diving experience of a lifetime . But, it's way out in the Pacific. Marine researchers, scientists, and conservation volunteers spent some 30 hours boating to the island in their quest for more knowledge about these ancient marine animals.
Consider what they do as a kind of working Costa Rica vacation that perhaps will contribute to preserving these marvelous marine reptiles now sadly endangered in much of their range." ... (Click on title link above to read entire article on efforts to preserve the endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica.) ...