Costa Rica is considered a hot spot for biodiversity and wildlife conservation in Central
America, and sea turtles are a good example of this. Largely distributed along both the …

Four of the world's seven sea turtle species nest on the central Caribbean coast of
Colombia. These are the loggerhead (Caretta caretta), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) …

Loggerhead sea turtles Caretta caretta are globally endangered. The population nesting in
Cabo Verde is genetically distinctive and numerically important in a global context. In Cabo …

the area around Caye Caulker is characterized by having vast seagrass beds and coral
reefs, which offer an array of food items and shelter for marine turtles. The observation of this …

The loggerhead turtle is a species of concern for the Inter-American Convention for the
Protection and Conservation of Sea Turtles (IAC), as it is subjected to many threats in the …

Figure 1. Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting trends in the USA by state, based
on Index Beach data. Index Beaches account for about 70% of all nesting in Florida, about …

We describe the results of extensive monitoring of leatherback turtle (Dermochelys coriacea)
nesting in the Gulf of Uraba, Colombia and the Caribbean coast of southern Panama. On …

One of the largest nesting colonies of the Vulnerable loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta is
in Cabo Verde. Here we present the first comprehensive study of loggerhead turtle nesting …

Loggerhead turtles (Caretta caretta) are characterized by their transoceanic migratory
patterns in the North Pacific Ocean, as individuals of this species originating from nesting …

Golfo Dulce, located along the South Pacific coast of Costa Rica, is a fiord-like structure with
an inner basin of more than 200 m depth, sheltered against the open ocean by a shallow sill …