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Actor Leonardo DiCaprio talks about illegal fishing in Costa Rica’s Cocos Island

DiCaprio highlighted the lack of enforcement in protected areas around the world, including his experience at Costa Rica's Cocos Island, in his remarks at the Our Oceans conference Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

Thousands of sea turtles arrive on Playa Ostional

Hundreds of thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles have begun their annual decent on Playa Ostional on Costa Rica's Pacific Coast. Officials from the National System of Conservation Areas (SINAC) confirmed that the nesting season officially kicked off Sunday with the season's first mass nesting event, known locally as an arribada.

Costa Rica’s dolphin-safe tuna designation under scrutiny

As the Costa Rican government stalls on the publication of new tuna fishing regulations, one environmental group has taken matters into its own hands.

Obama will propose expanding Pacific Ocean marine sanctuary

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday will announce his intent to make a broad swath of the central Pacific Ocean off limits to fishing, energy exploration and other activities, according to senior White House officials. The proposal, slated to go into effect later this year after a comment period, could create the world's largest marine sanctuary and double the area of ocean globally that is fully protected.

Kerry says summit will seek global action to protect oceans

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that he will "try to coalesce global action around the oceans" next week by hosting an international summit aimed at curbing overfishing, pollution and chemical changes spurred by rising carbon dioxide emissions worldwide.

Japan town known for its dolphin slaughters sued by activists

TOKYO – Animal rights activists said Thursday they had sued the major Japanese whaling town Taiji, internationally condemned for its dolphin hunts, for banning "foreign-looking" visitors from its whale museum.

Shrimpers protest trawling ban

Carrying signs, horns and noisemakers, hundreds of shrimp fishermen marched outside the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday to protest the permanent expiration of another shrimp trawling license following the country's trawling ban.

What is killing hundreds of Central American sea turtles?

Experts suspect red tide, but even that is an uncertainty. What is known is that the region's environmental agencies are not prepared to deal with the mass deaths of endangered sea turtles.

Hundreds of dead sea turtles could be headed for Costa Rica’s northwestern shores, officials say

The population of the nearly extinct Eastern Pacific green sea turtle will likely be severely affected by the recent mass deaths, according to biologists. Longline fishing and a mass dynamiting are suspected killers.

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