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Costa Rica Sea Turtles Satellite Tagging Conservation
A Costa Rica tagging expedition recently got underway at Cocos Island involving its green sea turtle and hawksbill visitors.
Marine scientists sail Costa Rica open waters for at least 30 hours in their pursuit of migration habits about these ancient marine animals.
Imagine what they do as a kind of working Costa Rica vacation that, hopefully, will contribute to preserving these marvelous marine reptiles now sadly endangered in much of their range.
Cocos Island, once described by the famed oceanographer, Jacque Cousteau, as the most beautiful island he had ever visited, lies some 340 miles off the Pacific coastline of Costa Rica, nearly halfway to the Galapagos Islands.
It was not the pretty beaches or palms that captured the imagination of the Captain. Its beauty lies off its shores, under water, in a place that Costa Ricans have voted one of the Seven Wonders of Cost Rica. It is there that one finds incomparable treasure: tremendous schools of fish, whales and porpoises and turtles.
Marine turtles have been roaming the oceans since the age of dinosaurs. Imagine T Rex feeding on them 200 million years ago when they came ashore to nest.
Mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex preyed on them more than 200 million years ago as they landed ashore to nest.
These ancient beings swim all the planet’s seas except the frozen Antarctic and Arctic.
However, those numbers are no more. Today, man’s indiscriminate coastline development and wanton destruction of their nests have put these creatures at risk. For many years, millions were slaughtered in South America to make stylish but expensive shoes for Europeans.
Jacque Yves Cousteau observed that: “If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.”
But, world conservation organizations have not abandoned hope and are working to turn around the decline turtle populations. Conservation groups are now tagging pelagic turtles like the green sea turtle in far-away places like Cocos Island. Some animals are fitted with flipper tags while others bear satellite transmitters to help track their movements and it has been discovered that some species travel thousands and thousands of miles of oceans, from tropical waters to the deep waters off Canada.
We cannot undo the past but the volunteers, scientists and researchers, and volunteers know that the future for sea turtles is yet to be inscribed.
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