“El nacimiento.” A sea turtle egg. Photo source: ©© Emmanuel Frezzotti
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The beach at Ostional is the only beach in the country where locals are legally allowed to harvest the turtle eggs for consumption. At each arribada, hundreds of people accompany the thousands of turtles on the beach where they dig up the nests and take the eggs, which are believed by some to be an aphrodisiac.
Olive Ridley turtles, the most common visitor to Ostional beach, are endangered, making the legal harvesting of the eggs a controversial topic…
Sea Turtle Egg Poaching Legalized in Costa Rica: The Debate, Coastal Care (Uploaded, 07-29-2011)
An unusual project installed in 1990, to stabilize the population of Olive Ridley sea turtles in the coastal town of Ostional on Costa Rica’s Nicoya Peninsula, that led the government of Costa Rica to legally permit an exemption to the 1966 nationwide ban on harvesting sea turtle eggs, remains controversial.
