Posts Tagged ‘Ancestral Tides’
Where the forest meets the sea: connecting Osa to the Amazon
Manuel Sanchez, a field coordinator with the Amazon Conservation Team, remembers the first time he saw a sea turtle growing up on Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula. He had been fishing one night with his father, and they were walking back along Playa Piro (Piro Beach) on the Pacific Coast. “It was around eight at night…
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Sea turtles are living ambassadors from a deep and distant past. For Indigenous cultures along the coast, these ancient, 100 million-year-old creatures embody wisdom, endurance, and the power of creation. Through our Ancestral Tides program, the Amazon Conservation Team partners with Indigenous and local communities to protect sea turtles and the coastal ecosystems they call…
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