by admin | Mar 21, 2018 | Internships, mammals, RPT Research
Tessa Van de Pas is a new intern from HAS University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands) who will spend 20 weeks in Reserva Playa Tortuga studing the ocelots. Tessa will use 6 cameras that are installed around the trails of the reserve, which will be 24 hours on. After...
by admin | Mar 5, 2018 | Internships, RPT Research, Volunteering
“Hello! My name is Ali Ballard I am originally from Washington State in the United States. I graduated from Washington State University in 2015. In the spring of 2016 I moved to Jekyll Island, Georgia where I was a sea turtle patrol member. When my time in...
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...
by admin | Jan 22, 2018 | monkeys, RPT Research, Turtles, Volunteering
About 40 students between 17 and 18 years old from the Galloway School in Atlanta, US, visited the Reserva Playa Tortuga during January of this year. Accompanied by their teachers Lynda Jenkins and Stephen Fleming-Cooper, the students had the opportunity to stay for...
by admin | Dec 12, 2017 | monkeys, RPT Research, Volunteering
During the month of November, the staff and some volunteers started the monkey surveys which involve a beautiful 2 hour walk around the reserve, through jungle and river, with some amazing views of both ocean and mountain. There are both Capuchin and Howler monkeys in...
by admin | Feb 23, 2017 | RPT Research
As mentioned last year (here), Reserva Playa Tortuga has been researching the effects of sand erosion at Playa Tortuga. As a part of our partnership with the Georgia Sea Turtle Center (GSTC), our former Americorp research intern, Ashley Lavere, presented the results...
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