Costa Rica Turtle Nesting

Teacher: Laura Flynn

Student: Kattia Siles Solano

Sea Turtles

• Seven species

• They cannot retract their legs

• and head into their shells

• Diet: jellyfish, seaweed, crabs, shrimp, sponges, and mollusks.

Sea Turtle Life Cycle

Developing into adults

Eggs

“Lost years” in the Ocean

Hasting

September - November

September - November

October- February

February to July

April to May

Turtles of Costa Rica

• Oliver Ridley Sea Turtle

Vulnerable

• Green Sea Turtle

Engandered

Turtles of Costa Rica• Leatherback Sea Turtle

• Vulnerable

• Hawsbill Sea Turtle

Critically Endangered

Turtles of Costa Rica

• Logger Head Sea Turtle Endangered

• Pacific Green Sea TurtleEndangered

Project Ostional

•Founded in 1989

•1995: over 500,000

turtles arrived

What can we do

• Volunteer during seven days: 1,500 pp 

• Donated

• Adopt a Nest

 

Teacher: Laura FlynnStudent: Kattia Siles Solano

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhJoAlS7-wI

•www.sinac.go.cr•www.anywherecostarica.com•www.seeturtles.com•www.nicoyapeninsula.com•www.defenders.org

Links / References

Thanks you!