Reserva Playa Tortuga - JPM
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Help protect turtles by becoming a volunteer for Night Patrol or Hatchery Duty for RPT/Reserva Playa Tortuga. RPT is a non-profit biological research and education center formed in 2009 by community members ("citizen scientists") and Costa Rican scientists. RPT aims to contribute to the fields of biological research and science based conservation management as well as fomenting a culture of environmental conservation in the areas influenced by the National Wetlands of the Terraba-Sierpe basin. Night Patrol is at Playa Tortuga, a 1.4km beach, and is divided into sectors. Patrol shifts will be approx. 3.5 hours long and are done according to the tides. Contact Mieke at [email protected], and Oscar (biologist in charge of the turtle project) for estimated dates for hatchlings to be born. Patrolling is possible every night of the week, and done in 3 shifts: 7-10, 10-1 and 1-4. If you want to patrol, you will have to be in the Reserve 1 hour before patrol. Please inform them by phone (2786 5200) before noon if you would like to help out that day. They ask for a contribution of 10 dollars per person per night, which will be used for materials for the turtle project. If you come patrolling, please bring a flashlight, water, a cookie, a rain jacket and wear dark clothes (preferably long pants and long sleeves because of mosquitoes) and closed shoes. Let Mieke know how many persons are in your group, ages, if you speak Spanish, and whether you are arriving by car or public transport. One of the turtle assistants will pick you up at the beach, and bring you to the hatchery at Playa Tortuga. The Reserve is located in Ojochal. You follow the Costanera and enter Ojochal. Do not leave the Costanera, but follow the road until you cross the bridge over the Rio Balso. Just after the bridge there is a road on your right (direction Playa Tortuga). Take that road and follow it approximately 200m. The gate of Reserva Playa Tortuga is on your right hand side. http://reservaplayatortuga.org/marine-turtles/
Help protect turtles by becoming a volunteer for Night Patrol or Hatchery Duty for RPT/Reserva Playa Tortuga. RPT is a non-profit biological research and education center formed in 2009 by community members ("citizen scientists") and Costa Rican scientists. RPT aims to contribute to the fields of biological research and science based conservation management as well as fomenting a culture of environmental conservation in the areas influenced by the National Wetlands of the Terraba-Sierpe basin. Night Patrol is at Playa Tortuga, a 1.4km beach, and is divided into sectors. Patrol shifts will be approx. 3.5 hours long and are done according to the tides. Contact Mieke at [email protected], and Oscar (biologist in charge of the turtle project) for estimated dates for hatchlings to be born. Patrolling is possible every night of the week, and done in 3 shifts: 7-10, 10-1 and 1-4. If you want to patrol, you will have to be in the Reserve 1 hour before patrol. Please inform them by phone (2786 5200) before noon if you would like to help out that day. They ask for a contribution of 10 dollars per person per night, which will be used for materials for the turtle project. If you come patrolling, please bring a flashlight, water, a cookie, a rain jacket and wear dark clothes (preferably long pants and long sleeves because of mosquitoes) and closed shoes. Let Mieke know how many persons are in your group, ages, if you speak Spanish, and whether you are arriving by car or public transport. One of the turtle assistants will pick you up at the beach, and bring you to the hatchery at Playa Tortuga. The Reserve is located in Ojochal. You follow the Costanera and enter Ojochal. Do not leave the Costanera, but follow the road until you cross the bridge over the Rio Balso. Just after the bridge there is a road on your right (direction Playa Tortuga). Take that road and follow it approximately 200m. The gate of Reserva Playa Tortuga is on your right hand side. http://reservaplayatortuga.org/marine-turtles/
