He was only 15 when she drifted off-shore in the eastern tropical Pacific warm from the small beach called Ostional in a country that used to be more than five centuries, Columbus had the name of "Costa Rica", the "rich coast" . Olive Ridley sea turtle was.
It was finally ripe.
In November afternoon, the rain, they waited until 500 meters from the beach slipped removed. In its last quarter, now is the moon with an invisible forceon it. A few meters further, another Olive Ridley sea turtle joined her, then third, followed by a dozen, then hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of people now.
For unimaginable eons the moon the earth with its timeless stages, affecting graced this planet — and the stages for which more than one hundred million years, sea turtles return to the home of their ancestors.
There is something mysterious in nature. A few months ago, the sea turtles and the varietySea turtles were beside her now scattered Rica over a million square kilometers of the Pacific Ocean, some more than 2500 miles away from Costa.
Even if food was abundant off the Pacific, something moved inside her. She and hundreds of thousands as they felt the inexorable pull itself back Ostional Beach. You had to go back to where they were born to move.
Now, as she waited in the moonlight soft, was ready. Over the thousands of miles that hadHe had been reared by different people swam in the clear tropical waters, because, somehow, they too were of something invisible, hit a primal force. There was something so convincing that it was taking its way to the same beach in Costa Rica before the first dinosaurs.
Waiting in the night tropical turtles. He somehow the beach, where they found born in 1995.
We do not know how sea turtles of the Pacific is the exactBeach, where he began his life. There are few nesting beaches around the world and are not very large. Indeed Ostional Beach a few hundreds of meters long. Now part of Costa Rica Ostional National Wildlife Refuge, is almost certainly the largest Olive Ridley sea turtles nest on the ground.
, In 1995, the year they were born turtles Wonderful, approximately 500,000 women of Pacific sea turtles oil had nested here in large wave.
These are called massive invasions"Arribadas.
Unfortunately, our mother sea turtle will become their nest Ostional though twenty years had been part arribadas massive Ostional years. Not long ago, has drowned in a network of illegal shrimp on the way back to the old nest sites. It 'been a waste, because it could be avoided by simply using internationally required, but ignored the rule of law is a means of escaping turtle.
Thousands more weredestroy what is politely as "bycatch" by fishermen along the line that refuse to use hooks to prevent the great tragedy of this great and ancient creature.
Moreover, no one knows how many thousands were killed by swallowing awfully casually discarded plastic bags. It has the relentless plundering of nests, millions of eggs have been precious few small beaches.
Of course, the hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley trees just off the coast know nothing aboutthis. When we look across the water in the moonlight pale, now there are so many that it seems, could be back for a mile or more walk. We came to this beach, because we are in eco-tourism in Costa Rica are concerned. And we were not disappointed.
Look in awe at the number of the creation of God
They do not understand or have been on this planet long before the first Tyrannosaurus Rex.
You do not know that people waiting for themthe landing, so that when you spawn on this small Wildlife Refuge, men, women and children is legally RAID their nests and eggs to make one million in exchange for protection of the rest of pairs and species conservation.
They only know that this is where it should be, then it matters.
Then, as quietly as their first appearance beyond the surf, as gathered silently, patiently waiting, they begin to come ashore. A turtle, a second, tens, hundreds and thousands,— Tens of thousands more – wood and nest on the beach.
All night, all day, day after day, in a show of life.
As timeless as the same moon.
Arribada.
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