Parque marino las baulas: Conservation lessons from a new national park and from 45 years of conservation of sea turtles in Costa Rica

Biodiversity Conservation in Costa Rica: Learning the Lessons in a Seasonal Dry Forest

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 194-209

  Spotila, James R ^a   Paladino, Frank V ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PURDUE UNIVERSITY FORT WAYNE   (United States)

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