Sentences with phrase «turtles nesting on»

From the crews romp at Rios Tropicales, a Costa Rican low - impact river rafting company supporting the sustainable development of a local community, to their flight on Nature Air to destination Leatherback Trust, an organization working to protect the leatherback turtles nesting on the beaches around Playa Grand — it's an adventurous read chock full of inspiring companies and people making a difference.

In August you will find green, leatherback and hawksbill turtles nesting on the beaches of Tortuguero National Park on the Caribbean coast.

Other than turtles nesting on the Playa Grande and Playa Ventanas, the estuary is the home of some 3 - 4 meter American crocodiles.

If you come at the right time of year, you can observe the sea turtles nesting on the beach.

The number of loggerhead sea turtles nesting on the refuge has steadily increased in the past few decades, reaching 1,100 in 2014.

The researchers focused on leatherback sea turtles nesting on St. Kitts, an island in the West Indies southeast of Puerto Rico.

For a more adventurous day trip, ferries and seaplanes depart from nearby Key West, carrying visitors 68 nautical miles to Dry Tortugas National Park, where sea turtles nest on secluded beaches.

In all, five species of endangered sea turtles nest on Tortuguero's beaches, with most of the action happening between July and October.

Four types of endangered marine turtles nest on the isle's protected beaches.

During the summer months (December to February) sea turtles nest on the beaches.

Four species of sea turtles nest on Aruba: The Leatherback, the Loggerhead, the Green and the Hawksbill.

Olive Ridley, Green and Hawksbill turtles all nest on local beaches.

Endangered hawksbill and loggerhead turtles nest on Long Caye's beaches, as to several species of iguanas, lizards and large land crabs.

At any time of year there's at least one species of turtle nesting on the shores of Costa Rica.

And while green and loggerhead turtles nest on Lady Elliot, hawksbills don't.

The Tico Times in Costa Rica has been providing valuable updates since the murder late last week of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 - year - old guardian of sea turtle nests on Moín Beach on the country's Caribbean coast near the town of Limón.

Not exact matches

Wouldn't you scoff if someone were to tell you that the Earth rides on the back of a VERY large turtle?

But amazingly the fact that some said it rested on the back of a turtle did not make it fact, as I was pointing out, just arguing about God's existence is not proof of that existence.

I don't care if you believe a giant turtle upchucked and created the universe — just do NOT legislate or try to legislate based on your mythology.

And some Atheists there is a vested interest into making Agnostics into Atheists so as to say, «Common on, sure there may be a super turtle flying around the sun that is the source of all happiness, but we don't believe it is possible enough to grant the least credence, so we are A-Super-Turtlists in the same way we are A-Theists.»

Does not logic dictate that both birds and turtles somehow acquired this «skill», not on their own or by evolution, but that a Master Designer created them with this marvelous navigational ability just as a GPS was designed by a mind?

A standard ploy in our efforts to loosen up and stimulate the kids» imaginations is to get them wondering — like Ken — how it would feel to be some creature or thing they're not: steam shovel, garden hose, vacuum cleaner, wild horse, 100 - year - old turtle, old man on a park bench.

As for me, I can't believe in an human - like being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard» on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtN'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests on the back of giant turtle.

Just about the only thing that hasn't been added is the Hindu creation myth that the Earth sits on top of the giant elephant that rests on the shell of a enormous turtle.

I don't think Sczny is all that bad of a goal keeper, we will all agree that he is not as good as tubut, degea etc but I think is father is spot on with his anology Mert is like a big over grown turtle and equally as slow every defender in the league knows that if your keeper advance you should go straight on the goal line debuchy did it in the closing moments of that game that's what Mert should have done.

To the North, you have the Sunshine Coast, with Steve Irwin's Australia Zoo (an hour north); Mon Repos Turtle Centre, where you can watch sea turtles nest and hatch, depending on the season; Fraser Island; and access to the Southern tip of the Great Barrier Reef from the Town of 1770 (About 6 hours north of Brisbane).

We put on a «turtle shell» and pretended to waddle on like a turtle, being careful not to let our turtle shell fall off.

Some of our turtles go directly from the museum out into the wild but we can't afford to put radio transmitters on all of them so this is a great way of knowing which turtle is which should we come across them a few years later.

Head of the study Tyler Lyson from the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. and the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Colorado, adds that, «Based on what we know today, solid shells did not appear in fossil stem turtles until 50 million years after Eunotosaurus.»

But Eunotosaurus didn't have other features common to Odontochelys and turtles, including broad spines on their vertebrae.

To determine whether this was so, the team tracked leatherback sea turtles» behavior on St. Kitts during the 2008 nesting season, from May through July.

He was bound, shot through the head and dumped on the Costa Rican beach he regularly patrolled in his bid to protect leatherback turtle nests from poachers.

Dr Sam Weber from Ascension Island Government said: «We first noticed the close colour matching of sand fleas to their environment during research into the turtles that nest on Ascension's shores.

This attempt marks the first time artificial insemination has been tried with any softshell turtle species and based on results of insemination with other turtles, the odds are not good for success.

She said the number of turtles caught in a single fishery or year may not seem to be a cause for concern, but even low levels might place pressure on a species when considered across fisheries and over multiple years.

Turtles nest unbothered on the remote beaches of the southern Line Islands, whereas in most other places they are killed for meat and their eggs are collected.

«Not only mammals — the sea off Cuba was so thick with 1,000 - pound green turtles that his boats practically ran aground on them.»

Not all dead turtles strand on beaches, especially young animals, and some decay at sea.

The two distinctive holes on the side of the head behind each eye of Pappochelys provide vital clues to the evolutionary heritage of turtles, says Torsten Scheyer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland who was not involved in the work.

On the beaches, there are also nesting sea turtles and as you go inland, many, many species, including jaguars and tapirs.

The main predator of green turtle hatchlings on the island is the yellow crab (Johngarthia lagostoma), which is not much larger than the hatchlings themselves.

For the tens of thousands of sea turtle eggs incubating in the sands of the northern Gulf of Mexico — and dangerously near the oil — it's come to this: Officials are planning to dig up the approximately 700 nests on Alabama and the Florida panhandle beaches, pack the eggs in Styrofoam boxes, and fly them to a facility in eastern Florida where they can mature.

Specifically, they looked at two long - term warming and cooling cycles whose effect on sea turtles hadn't been investigated, one in the Pacific where Japanese turtles spend their formative years, and another in the Atlantic, where young Floridian turtles live.

Instead, they join other East Coast turtles in warmer waters farther south, where they spend a decade or so maturing before returning to nest on their home beaches in Texas and Mexico.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

Humans are pushing sea turtles to the brink of extinction by entangling them in fishing gear, tossing plastic garbage into their habitats, and building resorts on prime nesting beaches, among other affronts.

With large amounts of data backing up each evolutionary branch on the turtle tree of life, scientists are able to compare their evolution not only across species, but also across each continent's corresponding fossil records.

Tagging doesn't work on green turtles (Chelonia mydas)-- they are just too small, says Nathan Putman of Oregon State University in Corvallis.

The team looked at 19 years of public data on turtle nesting locations in Florida and compared them with recordings of Earth's magnetic fields.

Not all green turtles bask on land, he noted.