Sea Turtle Conservancy has worked for the conservation of endangered sea turtles in Costa Rica since 1959. For the last 50 years they have conducted annual sea turtle nest monitoring studies on the 21 mile black sand beach of Tortuguero, the largest green sea turtle rookery in the Western Hemisphere with important nesting populations of leatherback and hawksbill turtles.
In addition to nest monitoring they tag turtles to track migration patterns and protect nests to decrease poaching and increase survival rates.
