Chiriqui Beach, Panama, the Most Important Leatherback Nesting Beach in Central America

Cristina Ordoñez; Sebastian Troëng; Anne Meylan; Peter Meylan; Argelis Ruiz

doi:10.2744/1071-8443(2007)6[122:CBPTMI]2.0.CO;2

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1 May 2007 Chiriqui Beach, Panama, the Most Important Leatherback Nesting Beach in Central America

Cristina Ordoñez, Sebastian Troëng, Anne Meylan, Peter Meylan, Argelis Ruiz

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Chelonian Conservation and Biology, 6(1):122-126 (2007). https://doi.org/10.2744/1071-8443(2007)6[122:CBPTMI]2.0.CO;2

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Chiriqui Beach, in the Comarca Ngöbe-Buglé on the Caribbean coast of Panama, is the most important nesting beach for leatherback turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) in Caribbean Central America. Beach surveys during the 2003 and 2004 nesting seasons documented 3077 leatherback nests in one season and a minimum of 234 individual leatherbacks. Monitoring of nest fate revealed that predation by dogs represents the greatest human-related survival threat to leatherbacks at Chiriqui Beach, although the killing of leatherbacks from the same nesting population on beaches near the Panama–Costa Rica border also is of concern.

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Cristina Ordoñez, Sebastian Troëng, Anne Meylan, Peter Meylan, and Argelis Ruiz "Chiriqui Beach, Panama, the Most Important Leatherback Nesting Beach in Central America," Chelonian Conservation and Biology 6(1), 122-126, (1 May 2007). https://doi.org/10.2744/1071-8443(2007)6[122:CBPTMI]2.0.CO;2

Received: 16 September 2004; Accepted: 1 January 2007; Published: 1 May 2007

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