With the green season comes luscious rainforests, raging rapids and the opportunity for unique wildlife encounters ...

One female green turtle was struck by a ship just down ... facing a gantlet of predators on land and at sea. Costa Rica began trying to prohibit egg harvests in the 1970s, but enforcement was ...

It's no secret that Costa Rica ... most important turtle nesting sites in Costa Rica — and the Western Hemisphere, actually — ...

Ostional Beach is one of only two places in the world where the natural phenomenon of olive ridley turtle arrivals and nesting occurs ... Through these efforts, Costa Rica continues to create ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

It was an experience that prepared me for the olive ridley sea turtle arribada (Spanish for “arrival”) on the tropical beach of Ostional, Costa Rica. Turtles came ashore in the of tens of ...

Locals call it the arribada, Spanish for “arrival”: the magical days and nights when tens of thousands of sea turtles come ashore on Costa Rica ... sea turtle. Named for its green hue ...