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Article: Turtle oblivion.(status of Nicaragua sea turtle population)
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- Geographical
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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The coconut fringed Corn Islands are set amid a turquoise sea and protected by a coral reef. A paradise, it would seem. That is as long as you're not a green sea turtle,
I'D COME TO NICARAGUA in search of sea turtles but I wasn't having much luck. True, the best-known turtle-nesting beaches are farther south, at Tortuguero, on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast. There, I could have joined a group of turtle watchers to observe green and hawksbill turtles laying their eggs. During the twice yearly nesting seasons, visitors descend in the middle of the night on Tortuguero's beaches to watch the ancient reptiles haul themselves out of the sea to lay their eggs in the pits ...