Research Assistants for Costa Rica Sea Turtle Conservation

This experience was excellent, since the road to follow and transport across bus and a ferry, and later arrive at little town with friendly people. The place is beautiful in middle of the jungle and the beach, the staff is excellent, they are like a family for the volunteers and care them a lot. The sea turtle program was good and the volunteers can learned about this animals and others like the monkeys, coatis, insects, birds, iguanas, horses, plants, many things. My internship was a excellent ...

I was in Romelia from June to September, seeing the whole process of turtle season from building the hatchery, sifting sand for it, getting our first sea turtle nests, guarding the hatchery through the incubation period, and finally setting free the little baby tortuguitas! It was an amazing learning experience for conservation and for Spanish! I spent the whole three months speaking Spanish almost exclusively, which just made my heart soar. Romelia itself is a remote location, and getting ...