Puerto Rico Leatherback Turtle Nesting Site, Receives Protection
Puerto Rico’s governor has signed a law to protect a swath of land along the island’s northeast coast that is a top U.S. nesting site for the world’s largest turtle species.
Sea Turtle Egg Poaching Legalized in Costa Rica: The Debate
An unusual project installed in 1990, to stabilize the population of Olive Ridley sea turtles in the coastal town of Ostional on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, that led the government of Costa Rica to legally permit an exemption to the 1966 nationwide ban on harvesting sea turtle eggs, remains controversial.
Pollution
Pollution Introduction to Pollution More on Pollution . . . Ecosystem Destruction Plastic Pollution Pollution Plastic gets to the oceans through over 1,000 rivers May 11, 2021 Coastal Care Excerpts: The problem with plastic waste just got more complicated—and so did the effort to stanch its flow into the world’s oceans. Read Full Article, National Geographic (05-11-2021) […]
Plastic Pollution
PLASTIC POLLUTION: PHOTO GALLERY FEATURED PLASTIC POLLUTION ARTICLE When The Mermaids Cry: The Great Plastic Tide By Claire Le Guern Last updated in November 2019. Introduction The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed […]
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Coastal Care is focused on coastal and beach issues and education. The site will serve as the central hub of the Foundation’s activities, and federate the efforts of many local communities from around the world.
Plastic Pollution
The world population is living, working, vacationing, increasingly conglomerating along the coasts, and standing on the front row of the greatest, most unprecedented, plastic waste tide ever faced. Washed out on our coasts in obvious and clearly visible form, the plastic pollution spectacle blatantly unveiling on our beaches is only the prelude of the greater story that unfolded further away in the world’s oceans, yet mostly originating from where we stand: the land.