GVI Costa Rica team spreading the word

Sharing is something that scientists often have a reputation for being bad at, but we have done our level best to cast off a stereotype. Saturday July 26th saw GVI Costa Rica Country Director, Rebeca Chaverri, attend the VII Marine Turtle Student Symposium organized by Ecology Project International (EPI).

The symposium included representatives from four marine turtle programmes based on Costa Rica, three of them are our neighbours on the Caribbean coast. Contacts were established or reinforced and information and ideas exchanged.

The following Monday the field team were invited to give a lecture to a group of professors, researchers and undergraduate students who were spending three weeks at Estación El Zota, near Barra del Colorado. The group had three days in Tortuguero and were interested to know about the work of GVI Costa Rica and Caño Palma Biological Station. They were very interested in the diversity of programmes being conducted, asking questions for over an hour about birds, jaguars and especially marine turtles.

GVI Costa Rica team spreading the word