With great pleasure I read today in www.nacion.com that a new area for Sea Turtle protection was created in the north pacific province of Guancaste, Costa Rica.
Last week the Costa Rican government created Caletas-Ario Wildlife Refuge which includes the nesting area of the Leatherback Sea turtles at Playa Caletas. With this new addition to the already existing Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas at Playa Grande the almost extinct Baulas (Spanish name for Leatherbacks) have a better chance of surviving.
In this new area which covers 313 hectares of land and 19.846 hectares of coastal waters it is estimated that a colony of 12 Baulas lay between 20 and 40 nests each year, each with around 60 eggs.
But no only Leatherbacks are found here. Hawksbill and Green Sea Turtles are among other species that come back each year to the same beach they hatched on.