by admin | Apr 17, 2019 | Community, crocs, education
An awareness talk on snakes, spiders, scorpions, and other common critters of the area was held last Wednesday, April 10th, at the Reserva Playa Tortuga. The talk started with the director of RPT, Oscar Brenes, and followed by the anthropologist and herpetologist...
by admin | Feb 11, 2019 | birds, butterflies, children, Community, education, summer club, Turtles
So, the Summer Club 2019 is over and surely the kids had a blast. They learnt not just on the theory, but also on the field, about so many species and ecosystem in generally. Some of the activities they did were: canopy at Hacienda Baru, turtle exhumation and release,...
by admin | Feb 5, 2019 | Community, education, Internships, mammals, monkeys, RPT Research
The student from HAS University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands), Bas van der Zeijden has already finished his study to compare the mammals abundance between nature Reserve and other properties in Ojochal. He invited the neighbors that participate on this study and...
by admin | Nov 24, 2018 | Community, Outreach
The tours will take place on weekends (Saturday and Sunday) at 7 am. Those who join these visits will be able to explore the trails of the reserve and learn about the ecology of the forest, accompanied by the expert biologist and reserve director, Oscar Brenes. The...
by admin | Aug 10, 2018 | Community, Outreach, Volunteering
As on every first Wednesday of each month, on June 6th, was carried out the Playa Ventanas cleanup, organized by Comité Bandera Azul Playa Ventanas and Playa Tortuga, ASADA Ojochal and Reserva Playa Tortuga. In a special way, this day the Bandera Azul Ecológica was...
by admin | Apr 12, 2018 | birds, Community, RPT Research
In January of this year, members of the Reserva Playa Tortuga, together with volunteers and neighbors, began an investigation regarding the distribution of toucans, aracaris and oropendolas in Ojochal and Playa Tortuga, as part of the Birds Monitoring Project that...
Reserva Playa Tortuga is a non-profit biological research and education center formed in 2009 by community members (“citizen scientists”) and Costa Rican scientists. read more