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Environment & Energy

GliderGuider

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2. A young woman I knew went to Costa Rica to work on sea turtle protection

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Wed Feb 27, 2013, 02:09 PM

Feb 2013

She spent 3 or 4 months running around on beaches at night with a headlamp, collecting eggs as they were laid. The eggs were transferred to a protected hatchery. The biggest predator threat was human poachers.

Sad stuff.

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Leatherback Sea Turtle Could Be Extinct Within 20 Years at Last Stronghold in the Pacific Ocean [View all] PETRUS Feb 2013 OP

Extensive beach management dipsydoodle Feb 2013 #1

A young woman I knew went to Costa Rica to work on sea turtle protection GliderGuider Feb 2013 #2

very sad indeed limpyhobbler Feb 2013 #3

Indonesian not Papuan poaching daeron Feb 2013 #4

Thanks for chiming in. PETRUS Feb 2013 #6

Just to clarify -- there are Atlantic populations of leatherbacks as well ... eppur_se_muova Feb 2013 #5