Caribbean Coast Sights

Sea Turtle Conservancy

Sea Turtle Conservancy Review

Florida's Sea Turtle Conservancy runs a visitor center and a museum with excellent animal photos, a video narrating local and natural history, and detailed discussions of the latest ecological goings-on and what you can do to help. There's a souvenir shop next door. For the committed ecotourist, the John H. Phipps Biological Field Station, affiliated with the organization, has camping areas and dorm-style quarters with a communal kitchen. If you want to get involved in the life of the turtles, helping researchers to track turtle migration (current research, using satellite technology, has tracked turtles as far as the Florida Keys) or helping to catalog the population of neotropical migrant birds, arrange a stay in advance through the center.

    Contact Information

  • Address: From beach at north end of village, walk north along path and watch for sign, Tortuguero, 70205
  • Phone: 2709-8091; 800/678-7853 in North America
  • Cost: $1
  • Hours: Mon.--Sat. 8--4, Sun. 9--5
  • Website: www.conserveturtles.org
  • Location: Tortuguero

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