Nuestra posiciòn
viernes, abril 15, 2011 at 7:04AM Realmente hay que venir y ver esto.
Aunque ni a palos me coma un huevo de tortuga. No creo que el hecho de estar entre las opciones de alimento me vuelva una consumidora. No puedo simplemente comerme un huevo de tortuga.
Cuando uno ve esto que ocurre aca no deja de maravillarse por una situaciòn tan especial. Le invitamos a vivirlo y formarse su propia opiniòn personal pero sobre todo le invitamos a enterarse de que esta ocurriendo en el planeta en general.
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The Ana Ossembach ENGLISH VERSION
Ostional seems at first glance, any beach, one of those beaches that tourists do not come willingly to bathe, it is too open, allowing the sea to vent violently. But if we look closely, we noticed something unusual: the sand is littered with white fragments, viewed more closely, it turns out are not fragments of shells. Know that Ostional is the largest nesting site for olive ridleys in the world to understand that the fragments we see are fragments of turtle eggs. And not a few eggs, no. Of millions of eggs that, moreover, have not been broken by natural hatching. They have broken the turtles themselves, arriving en masse, they find a
own space to nest and have to do it anywhere, just hours before arrival or above, other turtles have nested already. Thus, when they dig their nest eggs inadvertently expelled their fellows, eggs that feed the vultures, sandpipers, chickens, dogs, herons, herons, osprey and even the crabs, which come to precise intervals moles claim their share of the spoils.
In this month of September 2009, is estimated to arrive in the fleet will consist of a million and half female turtles. It is an unimaginable figure. So, as those who have come to binge, who have come to marvel at another of the many manifestations of nature we remain expectant, staring at the site by the promise of miracle.
The sandpipers scamper on the water surface left by the retiring waves, sniffing dogs roam the arena, the vultures watch the horizon, and tourists, sitting on the trunks bearing of the last tide on the beach, we stare at the sea, without ever quite believing that under the
water mass is agitated loudly before our eyes, a huge fleet of turtles swimming about Ostional.
The night falls bringing the first signs of the imminence of the great event: a few lonely sea and abandon their natural, crawling on their fins, walk with difficulty hundred meters separating the surf of the nest. The one that crosses our path very slowly moving turtle, without making more noise than the touch of his big body on the sand. Occasionally he stops to gasp, inflating and deflating the bags around his neck. For the strong odor given off-a salt, algae and marine sediments, one would say that makes you sweat effort to come up with labor pains suitable site for spawning. The pain must be very intense for that, out of his element, he senses danger confronts the red lights of the flashlights to shine. A single thought seems motivated: as soon as possible to reach the top of the beach, dig a nest and lay eggs that are struggling to emerge from her womb.
With mathematical precision, with her hind flippers dig a hole perfectly vertical and cylindrical. The frantic race is over. Now you can support these same fins on the rim of the nest and abandon the tremendous relief it is finally spawn. Close your eyes and go into trance. While dropping the eggs one by one inside the nest, and not for anything or anyone. It's time to caress her shell-phosphorescent flashes with each pass of the hand without being alarmed. The task maternal tenderness inspires us, but also respect. Hence the silence we keep to the imperiousness of the instinct that drives
conserve the species, thinking that the hundred of eggs is setting, only a few prosper and produce a baby turtle, fifteen years later, when you reach adulthood, looking back at Ostional, she also a nest.
The last of the eggs to fall within the nest is the final tonight, but probably not the last that will put our turtle is up. It is possible that during the next few days, go to
beach one or two more times to terminate your spawn. For sand now covers the eggs, rises on his flippers and drop the full weight of his body on the nest. Repeat this motion over and over again, slowly turning on itself, until the sand is caked and camouflaged nest.
And there ends their responsibility as mothers. As is their nature to protect the eggs from nest robbers - call these dogs, vultures or persons, or to free the turtles of the dangers that lurk once you break the egg, slowly returns to the sea and is lost among the swell.
As our turtle, another fifty have come tonight to spawn. Their footprints are observed at the
morning along seven miles of beach, a sign that the big arrival is about to occur.
The day passes slowly. A trip to Nosara, due to lack of rain, the Mountain River allows the passage of our jeep, we are distracted for a few hours. In the afternoon, however, we turn to sit in the trunks of the beach, scanning the sea like vultures. But another night falls no arrival has occurred. Still, we're hoping to bed because the neighbors of Ostional, all experts on the matter, ensure that the fleet finally arrive tonight.
Indeed, at dawn awakens the target:
- Fleet, fleet!
The PA system, combined with the clarion of the cocks morning, causing a jolt. We get in feet: Ostional residents willing to get down to work, and the hotel guests eager to witness the miracle.
We ran to the beach without us carrying amount backwards pants and shirts buttoned wrong. Our hearts beat wildly. Everywhere we see turtles toiling in their nests. But it is only when we crossed the stream and reach the main beach that is offered to our eyes the size of the show: there are thousands of turtles who, having gathered in the last quarter, coming and going like ants consuming, leaving rutted sand .
The beach is now a freshly plowed field, among whom we must move constantly to avoid a collision.
We move constantly while we wonder enters the eye and touches our heart. Dan wanted to embrace all these turtles, rising dripping wet and gleaming in the soft light of dawn, which will stop at no obstacle and climb over a log or other turtle that blocks their path, which at digging the nest throw handfuls of sand around, which are in the process laying their eggs, which flattened the sand with their flippers to camouflage the nest and returning to the sea completely covered with sand.
It also makes you want to mourn to see that it lacks a fin, it has sunk the shell and beyond brings a fishhook stuck in his mouth. There is nothing you can do to get it out, only books of the line, which could become entangled in a rock and, by preventing him from coming to the surface, could cause death by asphyxiation. Others have been less fortunate and have arrived dead on the beach. Neighbors that have an above have come to find six hundred bodies. The fault lies with the
fishing boats are anchored off the coast and to which the MINAE turns a blind eye. Security officials who do not care to send patrol boats and have no political will to uphold the turtles have ever witnessed the miracle that
place on this beach. Otherwise, they may form, as to us, a lump in the throat and change of attitude. But who knows. They may have a heart of stone and not be moved to this hotbed of shells which, taken together, resemble a rocky area that suddenly a magic wand would have breathed life.
This is what we see on the beach. At sea we see a number of leaders peeking through the waves. Turtles do not know if they are queuing to arrive or are turtles, say the residents of Ostional accompany them on their journey, without ever setting fin on the ground. In these days of lunar madness are only the ones who venture to make port, even in broad daylight, no matter nor buzzards, nor the tourists, who, like St. Thomas, we must see to believe-nor the neighbors Ostional, at six o'clock in the morning begin to remove eggs.
Contrary to what might be expected, the species does not resent this extraction. Eggs are removed only half a mile of beach and only during the first two days of arrival. This ensures that only those eggs will be drawn inevitably be destroyed by the turtles in the six or seven days, dig in the beach up to seventeen nests per square meter. But, in case anyone still doubted
ostionaleños that benefit both management and turtles made of egg production, we must say that most turtles are born in those parts of the beach where you can extract them in the parts where not allowed. The scientific explanation is that, by removing some eggs, which are next to have more space and more oxygen to develop. Thus, in the thirty-five years since the Association of Integral Development of Ostional (ADIO) taking advantage of this resource, the population of olive ridley turtle, far from diminishing, has increased. This is also due to members of the association, among many other tasks, logs and debris cleaned from the beach, plant piñuela within its boundaries to stop the turtles that would otherwise go to lay their eggs in the middle of town, watch daily to prevent the looting and guide tourists to learn of the phenomenon without damaging it.
Ostional That gives a real symbiosis between man and turtles is something we should know, because the authorities are planning to evict the residents on 10 January. This eviction is a tragedy for ostionaleños, but for the turtles, who will be adversely affected when they are no longer to care for them. Over 35 years have shown that they know best how to manage this resource and use it sustainably. This is deservedly recognized national and international scientific community.
But why is to evict the residents of Ostional? To answer this question we must make a little history. The town was founded in 1902 and have since proliferated in the six generations of ostionaleños. To get an idea of the isolation in which they lived, I must say that it was not until 1996 that they received the electric light. The dirt road has always had, and which could
Santa Cruz reached only by wagon or on horseback, was raided a few months ago but due to the absence of bridges, remains hardly passable. Last year alone, the helicopters had to bring food three times to the community, because the swollen rivers had left incommunicado. Under these conditions, it is understandable that residents were unable to take care of their property deed, despite the fact that their ancestors arrived in the area since the early twentieth century.
Common sense tells us that these families have more right than anyone to live in Ostional. However, a few months ago the director of the Tempisque Conservation Area, Emel Rodriguez, sought to evict them, claiming that before the Constitutional Court is Ostional Wildlife Refuge State in which 388 people live in precarious physical and legal. If Mr. Rodriguez gets what he proposed, the 10th of January will be expropriated families who have settled in Ostional prior to the creation of the refuge (1983), while those that were installed after its creation will be evicted . To this we must add that the evicted families are not outsiders. They are young families who have trained with descendants of the founders of the town.
Therefore, we must stop these forced evictions and expropriations. Who will fight for the preservation of the turtles when the people no longer exists? If MINAE far not been able to keep fishing vessels be killed with impunity, and has not been able to develop the management plan the Refuge Ostional Wildlife now the Constitutional Court as a condition required to proceed with the eviction, is thought that perhaps you may develop more work in Ostional turtles benefit that has been developed to date Development Association of Ostional (ADIO)? How much will this cost the country? The 260 ADIO partners, not to mention the children that help protect the turtles when they leave the nest, make a job for free until 2005, scientists from the UCR worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
So, the only way to prevent it from being destroyed a symbiotic community of turtles and humans is approved before January 10 Territories Act Coastal Community (# 17 394). Under this law, the Ostional residents would not be writing, because they allow them to someday sell their property, but grants that could pass for lifetime legacy of children to grandchildren.
To whom it hard to believe that what is presented here is true, to be waning over the next Ostional. You will then see for yourself how they work neighbors to protect turtles and at the same time, feed their children. For them and for the turtles have to stop the eviction. Only in this way
assurance that there will continue holding Ostional every six or seven weeks, the miraculous birth of a new generation simultaneous olive ridley.