{"id":19836,"date":"2020-05-04T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=19836"},"modified":"2020-10-14T12:26:55","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T19:26:55","slug":"astop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2020\/05\/04\/astop\/","title":{"rendered":"Support Costa Rican sea turtles – Vote for ASTOP!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Sharon Hsu<\/a>,\u00a0MLML Vertebrate Ecology Lab<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n

\"\"Life. I have been lucky enough to have known a lot of kindness in this life. For a long time, I believed I had seen all the kindness - and more - than I could have asked for in a lifetime. And yet, life and the people in it continue to surprise me.<\/p>\n

There is a place named Parismina - it's a tiny dot on our map - a village of about 500 people in the heart of the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica, accessible only by boat. My first introduction here was in 2014, and I\u2019ve never lost touch since. I last spent 4 months here in 2018 doing my thesis research with leatherbacks, working alongside ASTOP (Asociacion Salvemos las Tortugas de Parismina)<\/a>, a local nonprofit sea turtle organization. During this time, I walked over 500 miles. I measured leatherback turtles - giant behemoths of the unknown - weighed their eggs, moved their nests, and watched their babies dig their way up from the sand to crawl into the same water their mothers came from.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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