The 2014-2015 Leatherback and Pacific Green sea
turtle season was closed on April of 2015. This season was very successful as we had strongly committed research
assistants, international and local, all of them highly motivated and
passionate about the project efforts. Also we did received support from
lots of volunteers that came to join us. Everything was essential for the good development of the
project!
Interesting were the results obtained for this
season. In previous seasons we have documented between 19 and 42 nests at
Ostional beach, usually done by 8 different nesting females. This year we only
had 4 leatherbacks arrived to the beach which laid a total of 8 nests, all of
which we protected on our hatchery. The nesting for this season has been very
low and we hope that it is more a consequence of El Niño phenomenon ongoing for
this year than the real expected decline of the population. Lets see what happens in the following years!
In the table below you can see the results
obtained of all the work done in last season.
|
|
Number of total activities
|
Number of females nesting
|
Number of total nests
|
Number of nests relocated to the
hatchery
|
% Hatching
success
|
Numbers of Hatchings
released
|
|
Leatherback turtle
|
11
|
4
|
8
|
8
|
39,9%
|
183
|
|
Pacific green sea turtle
|
73
|
8
|
19
|
12
|
82,5%
|
617
|
Before we go we would
like to give a deep recognition to Andrey, Wade, Yohan, Elmer, Christina,
Sarah, Callie for their big effort done this season; your job was amazing!
Thank you guys!
Also to all the volunteers from International
Student Volunteers and WorkingAbroad that came to help us in this conservation
effort, thank you so much.
Special thanks to Yeudy and Pablo, from the
MINAE, for helping us in the development of the project. And thanks to the support
given by the Costarrican Ministry of Enviromental and Energy.
Also thank you so much for the support that this
year we received from the Rufford Foundation as without them we wouldn´t be
able to develop this project.
THANKS TO ALL!
