by admin | Apr 19, 2023 | Community, Turtles, Volunteering
With the release of 74 green turtles, Chelonia mydas, in Playa Hermosa on Thursday, April 13, the 2022-2023 turtle season came to an end. Throughout the season, as is customary in the Reserva Playa Tortuga (RPT), patrolling efforts were made to search for nests in...
by admin | Mar 19, 2022 | Community, RPT Research, Uncategorized, Volunteering
On February 2022 the first field task of the projects called “Identification and distribution of Rays populations in the Térraba River, Costa Rica” were carried out. This initiative financed by “beca azul” de Mision Tiburon aims to learn about the distribution of...
by admin | Jan 12, 2022 | Community, Turtles, Volunteering
Thanks for making this video which shows the work that Reserva Playa Tortuga has been doing for several years to help with the conservation of sea turtles. Also RPT runs different projects all year long, and we welcome not just local but also volunteers from all...
by admin | Aug 24, 2021 | Community, RPT Research, Turtles, Volunteering
Good news for sea turtles and wildlife lovers of Costa Rica: during August, HAWKSBILL sea turtles were released at Playa Hermosa de Osa, which would be the first recorded on this beach. Normally, olive ridley turtles arrive in this sector and recently there were also...
by admin | Jan 5, 2021 | RPT Research, Turtles, Volunteering
On Saturday night, Óscar, director of Reserva Playa Tortuga, had a hunch and decided to accompany some volunteers who would go to monitor Playa Hermosa the next day, a place that in recent months has received dozens of Olive Ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) that...
by admin | Aug 22, 2020 | Community, Internships, Volunteering
August 19, 2020. The entry of international travelers has been authorized since August 1 at Costa Rica’s three international airports: Juan Santamaría International Airport, Daniel Oduber Quirós Airport, and Tobías Bolaños Airport. The authorized regions or...
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