Since March 2009, STRP and PRETOMA have led research expeditions to study sea turtles near the Cocos Islands offshore of Costa Rica, forming the Cocos Island Monitoring And Research (C-MAR) project. One component of the research involves tracking individual sea turtles with satellite transmitters to learn about their use of the Cocos Islands and the open-ocean migration route between these productive islands and the Galapagos Islands offshore of Ecuador.

The need for this data is critical to our on-going efforts to protect the Pacific leatherback worldwide and to support our efforts to protect Costa Rica's offshore and mainland nesting populations of sea turtles.

Soon we will be launching additional campaign activities to compel greater protection for all these species from longlining and other industrial fishing technologies that are threatening a vast array of marine species. Please sign up for our action alerts so we can let you know how and when you can help.

Lastly, if you are an experienced scuba diver, you can join one of our upcoming sea turtle and shark tagging expeditions. For more information click here. 

Gabby the Green Sea Turtle 

• The presentation of data here does not constitute publication. All data remain copyright of the project partners. Maps or data on this website may not be used or referenced without the explicit written consent of the data owners.
• For more information please visit the project website.
• This map connects positions generated by the ARGOS system designated as location codes (lc) '3', '2', '1', '0', 'A', 'B'.
• The static maps also shows locations of class 'A' as small black circles which are not connected by a route line.
• Bathymetry layers are derived from the GEBCO Digital Atlas published by the British Oceanographic Data Centre on behalf of the IOC and IHO, 2003, and the ETOPO2 Global 2' Elevations published by NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center.
• Sea surface temperature is derived from NASA's MODIS 8-Day Sea Surface Temperature data.