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Paso Pacifico is proud to announce that our rangers together with sea turtle scientists from the Proyecto Carey! have measured and tagged two critically endangered Hawksbill turtles. They were encountered and protected by our rangers on June 30th 2009 near the beach ‘La Flor’, a well known mass nesting olive ridley beach along the country’s southwest coast. These turtles will provide critical conservation information for what is one of the most endangered sea turtle populations on the planet; the hawksbill turtle in the eastern Pacific. The information generated will be used to help guide future research and conservation in the study region.
This huge achievement was made possible thanks to Alex and Ingrid of Proyecto Carey! and to the Eastern Pacific Hawskbill Inititiave, the Nicaraguan Minister of the Environment and Natural Resources (MARENA), the Nicaraguan Sea Turtle Network (Red Nica), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the USAID, the US Forest Service International Institute for Tropical Forestry, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), and the US Fish and Wildlife Service.
You may follow these turtles here:
http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=295