Turtle cookies! The phrase echoed through my brain as I slowly walked back to the cars. It seems outrageous that people would destroy the only hope of survival of these endangered animals in order to make cookies. What made it seem even worse was that they were [...]
By Indi Nunez
To witness her on the sandy shore like that, her strong extremities digging, her mind pursuing and pushing in single direction, set only on completing what she came to do, there is nothing else in the world that could compare. To know she is only one [...]
By Carmen Lyons Sunday was our first day of our five day road trip. We were visiting the town Ostional and other towns along the Nicoya Peninsula. I enjoyed driving through the beautiful Costa Rican towns and wilderness. We saw monkeys, birds, and all different kinds of trees and plants, as [...]
By Roxie Daims
The sun hadn’t yet risen when I woke up and pulled the blankets off of my drowsy body. It was a bright, crisp morning and the sun shone through my window and poured onto the floor like honey. I quickly dressed and grabbed my [...]
Waking up really early in the morning is not that easy sometimes, but we did and we were feeling excited about the adventure of the day.Caroline started the car and the trip began. We passed through different towns and every little town seemed special. The towns looked [...]
by Indi Sharer-Nuñez
Every second passing by is a step closer to freedom, a moment nearer to travel the immense sea that lay before their eyes. A path was made for them to follow, a programmed map inside their tiny little heads that will lead them to their next destination. Only a [...]
by Jim DiCarlo
Newly-hatched Olive Ridley sea turtles are about six centimeters long. The sun sets over the Pacific Ocean near Costa de Oro on the Nicoya Peninsula, and we watch with awe as more than a hundred baby sea turtles are set free to waggle their way towards the pounding surf. The three CIRENAS [...]
CIRENAS – MINAEM Caletas-Ario National Wildlife Refuge (C-ANWR) Management Plan Workshops The Area de Conservación Tempisque (ACT) along with a group of specialists from the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica (UNA) are conducting the revision of the Management Plan of the C-ANWR. The first meeting was held in San Francisco de Coyote and served as [...]
When CIRENAS was created our goal was always to help combine conservation, education and research with meaningful projects designed to give back to the people and environment surrounding the Caletas-Ario National Wildlife Refuge. Each of our courses is charged with the responsibility of completing a service learning or ecological restoration project. These projects have [...]
Towards the end of the Exeter ESSO course students completed a writing exercise of writing a letter to themselves as if they were preparing to go to Costa Rica, but knowing what they now know after have been there. One student Calais shares her letter to herself in this blog entry. Thank you Calais!
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