A group of volunteers from different countries worked for a month and a half to build a nursery designed to protect turtle nests at Matapalo Beach, in the Costa Rica Central Pacific. This is the second such facility built there, since the useful life of the first one had come to an end. Also, groups of volunteers patrol the beach during the spawning season –June 1st through November 30th– to prevent the action of poachers, among other predators. As an average, 500 turtles come to nest at this beach, according to Gustavo Gamboa, the Matapalo coordinator for the Association of Volunteers at the Service of Protected Areas (ASVO in Spanish).
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