Marine Turtle Satellite Tagging Project At Cocos Island, Costa Rica
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Recently, a Costa Rica based scientific satellite and fin tagging project got underway at Cocos Island to map the migration patterns of sea turtle.
Researchers and conservationists travel Costa Rica open waters for 30 hours or more in their pursuit of knowledge about these ancient marine animals.
Imagine what they do as a kind of working Costa Rica vacation that maybe will contribute to preserving these marvelous animals now sadly endangered in much of their range.
Cocos Island, once described by the world famous marine explorer, Jacque Cousteau, as the most beautiful island he had ever seen, lies some 340 miles off the Pacific shore of Costa Rica, nearly halfway to the Galapagos Islands.
It was not the pretty island sunsets and beaches that enthralled the Captain. Its beauty lies off its shores, under water, in a place that Costa Ricans have voted one of the Seven Wonders of Cost Rica. It is there that one finds incomparable treasure: vast numbers of fish, porpoises and whales and turtles.
Sea turtles have been roaming the oceans of the world since the age of dinosaurs. Imagine T Rex feeding on them 200 million years ago when they went ashore to nest.
These creatures are found in all the oceans of the world except the frozen Antarctic and Arctic.
These ancient mariner are found in all the seas on the globe except the frozen Arctic and Antarctic.
Sadly , no more. Today, our indiscriminate development of beaches and robbing of their nests have put them at risk. Millions were slaughtered in South America to make expensive Italian shoes.
Jacque Yves Cousteau presciently said that: “If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.” A being visiting from another galaxy might conclude that such a result would be just.
But, world conservation organizations have not abandoned hope and are working to turn around the decline turtle populations. Scientists are now tagging pelagic turtles like the green sea turtle in far-away places like Cocos Island. Some animals are fitted with satellite transmitters while others bear flipper tags to help track their migrations and it has been discovered that some species roam across thousands and thousands of miles of oceans, from tropical waters to the deep waters off Newfoundland, Canada.
We cannot undo the past but the volunteers, scientists and researchers, and volunteers know that the future for sea turtles is yet to be inscribed.
The author , Victor Krumm, lives in tropical Costa Rica. Follow his lovely site Costa Rica Vacations and for info about great beaches check out Costa Rica Beaches
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