The second-most-common catch on Costa Rica’s longline fisheries in the last decade was not a commercial fish species. It was olive ridley sea turtles. These lines also caught more green turtles than ...

It’s not quite dawn when my tour group is allowed to step onto the beach at Playa Ostional to see a huge arribada, an arrival of olive ridley sea turtles. We almost make a huge faux pas. Several of us ...

Costa Rican marine biologist Ariana Oporta-McCarthy grew up close to where a critically-endangered turtle nests: now she's helping to save it. Over the last 200 years, the Hawksbill turtle ...

From March through July, leatherback turtles are expected to arrive at Tortuguero and Gandoca-Manzanillo. These magnificent creatures, the largest of all sea turtles, can grow up to two meters in ...

There’s some good news for sea turtles: They are now safer in some parts of the world. More than 1 million sea turtles were illegally harvested between 1990 and 2020. But a new analysis has found that ...

A mass abduction on an idyllic beach in Costa Rica has concluded with happy endings - 736 of them. Poachers snatched hundreds of sea turtle eggs from nests along Costa Rica’s southern coast, a crucial ...

What a sight to see! Seeing sea turtles nesting on the beach or even the little baby sea turtles making their way into the ocean has been on our bucket list forever. And now, we have a feeling others ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A group of fishermen rescued a sea turtle that was entangled in nets and ropes off the coast of Costa Rica on Tuesday, December 16 ...

The Administrative Court of the Second Judicial Circuit of San José recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by development company JBR Capital Ventures against the Municipality of Nicoya over construction ...

New analysis finds between 2010 and 2020, the illegal catch of sea turtles was nearly 30% lower than in the previous decade. Save the sea turtles: This father-daughter conservation duo fights poaching ...