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 | Apr 12, 2018 | crocs, RPT Research
Two weeks ago, during a night monitoring at the Térraba River, part of the RPT team found for the first time an American crocodile nest. There were 2 baby crocs already dead and another 8 were born. The measure of the baby crocs were on average 26 cm long. What we can...
by admin | Feb 23, 2018 | crocs, RPT Research, Volunteering
As part of the Crocodilian Monitoring Project in August 2017 some staff members and volunteers set up the first of 3 GPS logger on talok (croc in Bribri) of a 2.5 mt American croc, at the Terraba River. The main objetive of this project is to collect real-time...
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