Back from the brink? Saving East Pacific leatherback turtles from extinction

When I was a first-year graduate student in 2001, I made my first trip to Parque Nacional Marino Las Baulas (Leatherback National Marine Park), in the northwest corner of Costa Rica, to begin my doctoral research on leatherback turtles. For a couple of seasons before I arrived, biologists, park rangers, and local turtle tour guides […]