Record number of leatherbacks hatch in Costa Rica

More specifically, the hatchings took place in Playa Junquillal, a Pacific coast beach near Santa Cruz, Guanacaste.

Many of the 886 baby leatherbacks emerged from their eggs in la Conservación de Baulas del Pacifico (Pacific Leatherback Conservation), a protected nursery and subproject of the World Wildlife Fund. Here, the humidity and temperature are both carefully controlled by volunteers to bring about the ideal conditions for the nests and eggs.

In this season, 25 nests, each containing 50 to 80 eggs, were found. Of these, only one was plundered.

Alas, after the celebrations at the record number of hatchings, it’s back to work, to prepare countrywide for the next nesting season in October.