Our Central American campaigner Randall Arauz is in town this week from Costa Rica sharing his incredible work to save endangered sea turtles and sharks. On Monday night at the Dance Palace in Pt. Reyes Station in West Marin (north of San Francisco), he offered an amazing program about plans to expand nesting protection on the Pacific coast of Costa Rican to more beaches in order to stop the decline of the leatherback.

Photo by George Duffileld

He also told about how his working tagging hammerhead sharks in the Cocos Islands has resulted in new discoveries about the migrating patterns of these large, and disappearing, predators. Shark-finning is taking a huge toll on these unique sharks. As a result of his findings on leatherback and hammerhead swimming patterns, we are preparing to launch a new campaign to protect the marine swimways off the coasts of Costa Rica and Ecuador from detrimental fishing and other activities. Come back to learn more. Randall's presentation on sea turtles, sharks and Cocos Islands will soon be posted on our website.

Welcome to the Sea Turtle Restoration Project blog at www.seaturtles.org.

After 18+ years at the forefront of the environmental movement with our innovative campaigns to protect sea turtles, we are happy to announce our new website.  It has been quite a scramble to transfer to the new site, and as such, the site will continue to grow over the next couple of months as time permits.

We are excited about the new tools and information we have available to motivate people like you to become active in protecting sea turtles, marine biodiversity, and the oceans.

Keep checking out this blog for updates on our exciting campaigns - from working with the tribal villages in Papua New Guinea to protect leatherbacks to challenging the US federal government's efforts to expand destructive industrial fishing in the Pacific, from strengthening Kemp's ridley nesting beach protections in Texas to protecting sharks and sea turtles in the waters off Costa Rica.

We'll keep you updated with dispatches from the field and fisheries meetings, and informed about new ways to help us protect the turtles, our oceans and ourselves.

Thanks for supporting our work.  We couldn't do it without you.