Osa Peninsula Chronicles

By Brooke Bessesen www.brookebessesen.com It’s the middle of the night and we walk in silence. Headlamps are off; our eyes have adjusted to the darkness. To the left, the rainforest silhouette rises to meet a star-studded horizon. On the right, the Pacific Ocean stretches like a rough floor waxed with moonshine. I am mesmerized by [...]

We’re excited to announce that we’ve officially kicked off our 2010 Sea Turtle Conservation Program on the Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, Central America.  This year we are expanding the program to cover Matapalo to Carate, a total of 18 km of patrolling to protect endangered sea turtles.  In previous years, our program covered the [...]

On June 17th, teachers from a number of local schools participated in a workshop on the biology, ecology and conservation of sea turtles at the Osa Biodiversity Center.  The workshop is an integrated part of Friends of the Osa’s Sea Turtle Conservation Program and was given by Pilar Bernal, FOO’s environmental education coordinator. The goal [...]

In preparation for the upcoming sea turtle nesting season, Friends of the Osa along with a number of local businesses and community members, organized a beach clean-up. The clean-up was seen as a necessity by Osa residents from Matapalo to Carate. For some reason, the amount of washed-up garbage and debris on the southern beaches [...]

This past Earth Day while our staff here on the Osa Peninsula were working with local students, planting seeds in our native tree nursery, and making preparations for the upcoming sea turtle nesting season, a group of authors across the United States were supporting conservation organizations around the world. Authors for Earth Day is a national [...]

Friends of the Osa’s successful Sea Turtle Conservation Program continued in 2009 on the Piro and Pejeperro beaches on the southern shores of Osa Peninsula in Costa Rica, Central America. FOO staff, visiting biologists, students and volunteers from around the world participated in working for the protection and study of sea turtles visiting these beaches. [...]