Protection of Turtles
A group of volunteers
from different countries
worked for a month and a
half to build a nursery
designed to protect
turtle nests at Matapalo
Beach, in the Costa Rica
Central Pacific.
This is the second such
facility built there,
since the useful life of
the first one had come
to an end.
Also, groups of
volunteers patrol the
beach during the
spawning season –June
1st through November
30th– to prevent the
action of poachers,
among other predators.
As an average, 500
turtles come to nest at
this beach, according to
Gustavo Gamboa, the
Matapalo coordinator for
the Association of
Volunteers at the
Service of Protected
Areas (ASVO in Spanish).
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