Turtle Field Opportunities in Costa Rica

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Turtle Trax S.A., contracted by PRETOMA (see below), manages international and national volunteers on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica’s southern Nicoyan Peninsula. Turtle Trax offers interns and volunteers the opportunity to get involved with sea turtle conservation, hands-on volunteer work, community projects, and locally based tourism. Turtle Trax offers programs to current undergraduate and graduate students, recent graduates, and those interested in getting experience with field work, place-based education, and the environment. For more information, please visit and share http://turtle-trax.com/.

For the 2015-16 season, there are two opportunities, internships (http://turtle-trax.com/assistants-coordinators/) and volunteer opportunities (http://turtle-trax.com/volunteer-2/) available. Currently, for this season, there are research assistant internships open. Please go to the aforementioned links to see how to apply.

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PRETOMA is a Costa Rican non-profit NGO founded in 1997. They are a marine conservation and research organization working to protect ocean resources and promote sustainable fisheries policies in Costa Rica and Central America. They engage in outreach programs with local fisheries, public campaigns against shark finning, direct conservation programs to protect sea turtles, education programs for local schools and universities, and more. Much of PRETOMA’s work is accomplished through the help of volunteers, completed directly within the local community, and the organization was started and is still run by Costa Rican natives.