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Caribbean Conservation Corporation

Address: From beach, walk north along path and watch for sign, Tortuguero
Mailing: Apdo. 246-2050, San Pedro, Costa Rica
Phone: 709-8091; 297-5510 in San Jose; 352/373-6441; 800/678-7853 in U.S.
www.cccturtle.org

CCC

Category: Museums/Galleries, Information Centers
Location: Tortuguero

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Fodor's Review:

The Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC) 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 CCC, 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.

Cost: $1
Open: Mon.-Sat. 10-noon and 2-5, Sun. 2-5:30

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