Tortuguero: Volunteers in the Village
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Tortuguero: Volunteers in the Village
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$35.99
Regular price $43.99
On Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, the 120-square-mile Tortuguero National Park—the “place of the turtle”—draws more than 30,000 green sea turtles to nest each year. When Jim Kinley and Mary Bell first visited in 1988, the village numbered just 350 residents. They returned—and got to work.
This memoir follows three years with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, in the wake of conservation pioneer Archie Carr. As Peace Corps volunteers, they taught environmental education and helped rally a community around sustainable change. The stories—often funny, often humbling—capture the daily improvisations of life in a remote jungle outpost.
Along the way, the book traces Tortuguero’s past, from turtle harvesting to conservation, and the turning point of the early 1990s, when locals and government worked together to protect a fragile ecosystem. Today, more than 100,000 visitors arrive each year—evidence of what that effort made possible.
This memoir follows three years with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, in the wake of conservation pioneer Archie Carr. As Peace Corps volunteers, they taught environmental education and helped rally a community around sustainable change. The stories—often funny, often humbling—capture the daily improvisations of life in a remote jungle outpost.
Along the way, the book traces Tortuguero’s past, from turtle harvesting to conservation, and the turning point of the early 1990s, when locals and government worked together to protect a fragile ecosystem. Today, more than 100,000 visitors arrive each year—evidence of what that effort made possible.