Due to COVID-19, CIRENAS is making important service changes. To comply with the Costa Rican Ministry of Health, CIRENAS is closed until it is safe to reopen.
With increased volunteers, more turtle patrols can be accomplished and the chance of finding nests before poachers increases. With more nest collections, the number of released turtles can expect to increase. Percent hatching of the egss collected increases as volunteers become more educated and…
“Sea turtles have played vital roles in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans for more than 100 million years. These roles range from maintaining productive coral reef ecosystems to transporting essential nutrients from the oceans to beaches and coastal dunes.” “Major changes have…
The CIRENAS campus has been designed to be an educational tool focused on promoting concepts and practices that regenerate eco-systems and enhance the social patterns and economic systems in the region. Primarily conceived as a center for experimentation and idea generation, CIRENAS is tied…
“The National System of Conservation Areas of Costa Rica or SINAC, (Spanish: Sistema Nacional de Areas de Conservacion), is part of the Ministry of Environment and Energy or MINAE of Costa Rica. It is the administrator for the nation’s national parks, conservation areas, and…
Our Ambassadors at Cirenas are those who one way or another have contributed valuable time and efforts to help Cirenas grow and be what it is today. It all began back in the day, exactly May 2006, when Professor Chris Inman and his teacher…