Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania

Both Tanzania’s and Costa Rica’s beaches provide important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles. Poaching of eggs by local people for food or for sale presents a major threat to these species, as do other predators. This harvesting of eggs in MPAs, and throughout Costa Rica, remains illegal, but...

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Main Authors:	Heidi J., Albers, Róger, Madrigal, Stephen, Kirama, Razack, Lokina, Aloyce, Hepelwa, Elizabeth J Z, Robinson, Jane, Turpie, Alpízar, Francisco
Format:	Reporte técnico
Language:	Inglés
Published:	CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica) 2020
Subjects:	AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS TANZANIA TORTUGAS MARINAS ESPECIES EN PELIGRO DE EXTINCION CAZA FURTIVA CONSERVACION DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE TURISMO ENCUESTAS COSTA RICA
Online Access:	https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9561

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spelling	RepoCATIE95612022-02-23T10:26:34Z Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania Heidi J., Albers Róger, Madrigal Stephen, Kirama Razack, Lokina Aloyce, Hepelwa Elizabeth J Z, Robinson Jane, Turpie Alpízar, Francisco AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS TANZANIA TORTUGAS MARINAS ESPECIES EN PELIGRO DE EXTINCION CAZA FURTIVA CONSERVACION DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE TURISMO ENCUESTAS COSTA RICA Both Tanzania’s and Costa Rica’s beaches provide important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles. Poaching of eggs by local people for food or for sale presents a major threat to these species, as do other predators. This harvesting of eggs in MPAs, and throughout Costa Rica, remains illegal, but enforcement on long beaches proves difficult. Both countries have active organizations that attempt to reduce this poaching, sometimes involving moving nests. The Tanzanian NGO Sea Sense works directly with local communities to increase knowledge and to provide cash from tourist viewing of hatchlings to local communities to generate incentives to refrain from harvesting eggs. Similarly, but on a much larger scale, Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica manages a guide system that provides employment to local people while maintaining controls on the number and behavior of tourists watching turtles hatch or lay eggs. 2020-09-01T14:56:23Z 2020-09-01T14:56:23Z 2015-07-22 Reporte técnico https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/9561 en info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ pdf application/pdf CATIE, Turrialba (Costa Rica)
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topic	AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS TANZANIA TORTUGAS MARINAS ESPECIES EN PELIGRO DE EXTINCION CAZA FURTIVA CONSERVACION DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE TURISMO ENCUESTAS COSTA RICA
spellingShingle	AREAS MARINAS PROTEGIDAS TANZANIA TORTUGAS MARINAS ESPECIES EN PELIGRO DE EXTINCION CAZA FURTIVA CONSERVACION DESARROLLO SOSTENIBLE TURISMO ENCUESTAS COSTA RICA Heidi J., Albers Róger, Madrigal Stephen, Kirama Razack, Lokina Aloyce, Hepelwa Elizabeth J Z, Robinson Jane, Turpie Alpízar, Francisco Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
description	Both Tanzania’s and Costa Rica’s beaches provide important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles. Poaching of eggs by local people for food or for sale presents a major threat to these species, as do other predators. This harvesting of eggs in MPAs, and throughout Costa Rica, remains illegal, but enforcement on long beaches proves difficult. Both countries have active organizations that attempt to reduce this poaching, sometimes involving moving nests. The Tanzanian NGO Sea Sense works directly with local communities to increase knowledge and to provide cash from tourist viewing of hatchlings to local communities to generate incentives to refrain from harvesting eggs. Similarly, but on a much larger scale, Tortuguero National Park in Costa Rica manages a guide system that provides employment to local people while maintaining controls on the number and behavior of tourists watching turtles hatch or lay eggs.
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author	Heidi J., Albers Róger, Madrigal Stephen, Kirama Razack, Lokina Aloyce, Hepelwa Elizabeth J Z, Robinson Jane, Turpie Alpízar, Francisco
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title	Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
title_short	Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
title_full	Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
title_fullStr	Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
title_full_unstemmed	Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania
title_sort	marine protected areas: lessons from costa rica and tanzania
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Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from Costa Rica and Tanzania

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