The Scuba Sports Club
Monthly Meeting
May 14, 2008
8:00P.M. at Tino's
(914) 769-7236
Rt. 9A Hawthorne, NY
May Speakers:
Dr. Pilar Santidrian and graduate student Gabriela Blanco
Dr. Pilar Santidrian and Gabriela Blanco are from The Leatherback Trust
<http://www.leatherback.org/> . The Leatherback Trust is a non-profit
foundation established by James R. Spotila, Ph.D. to save the leatherback
turtle and other sea turtles from extinction. The Leatherback Trust
scientists were instrumental in founding a new national park, Parque Marino
Las Baulas, on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The park protects the most
important leatherback nesting beaches in the Pacific Ocean. Our scientists
have trained park rangers and guides, worked with local school children and
advised the local community on living in harmony with the leatherbacks.
Before the Park was established poachers took 100% of nests. Now almost all
nests are protected and a hatchery protects nests that would be washed away
by high tides or eaten by predators. Now thousands of hatchlings crawl to
the ocean every season where five years ago only a few survived.
Mark your calendar:
Fort Wetherill, RI May 17
Memorial Day Picnic at Dykes Point May 25
Membership will also be accepting club dues Wednesday night.
