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In May 2018, the government of Costa Rica assigned the wetlands in northern Golfo Dulce as a sanctuary for the scalloped hammerhead shark, creating 4,000 hectares of ‘no-take’ zone: the first shark sanctuary in Costa Rica. [2] This followed the work of Misión Tiburón, an organisation led by marine biologists Ilena Zanella and Andres Lopez.
Misión Tiburón is a non profit organisation established in 2009, based on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.Founded by marine biologists and conservationists Ilena Zanella and Andres Lopez, the organisation focuses on marine research concerning sharks, sea turtles and rays as well as education programs targeted at local coastal communities.
Research carried out by the nongovernmental organization Misión Tiburón, using conventional and acoustic shark tagging methods, found that adult scalloped hammerheads migrate from the pelagic waters surrounding Cocos Island to the mangroves in the tropical fjord of Golfo Dulce - a tropical fjord on the Pacific Coast of Costa Rica. [14] Here ...
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Yellow form from the Golfo Dulce on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica. The yellow-bellied sea snake has an extensive distribution covering the entire tropical Indo-Pacific, as well as extending to Costa Rica, southern California, and northern Peru. [21] [22] It is the only sea snake to have reached the Hawaiian Islands. [23]
Golfo Dulce Forest Reserve (Spanish: Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce), is a protected area in Costa Rica, managed under the Osa Conservation Area. It was created in 1975 by decree 8494-A. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] References
2024 was an "exceptionally quiet year" for shark attacks. But the U.S. still led the globe - again. See where the fatal attacks happened.
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