Sea Turtle Conservation

You hear us talk about it often, but there's some truly incredible conservation work happening around the world, but most have no idea it's taking place...

That's where the premise of Hard Truths of Conservation was born. In order to make an effective difference on the future of conservation, we need to present the hard truths. And do it in a way that allows people to learn and form their own opinions on the subject.

Dan Cabela just returned from Costa Rica, and according to him, "it was one of the coolest conservation experiences of my life." He and the team were there to hopefully document the "arribada" which is the synchronized, mass nesting of thousands of female sea turtles on a single beach. The phenomenon is primarily seen in olive ridley and Kemp's ridley sea turtles.

We have already documented some amazing conservation work happening with turtle rescues around Cape Cod last winter, but this trip was all about timing. The arribada only happens a few times a year, and it's all based off lunar cycle. It is vital because the mass nesting with thousands of turtles on the beach at once overwhelms predators, a process called "predator swamping," ensuring that enough eggs and hatchlings survive to maintain the population. 

There's still one more piece to this story that we will be documenting in 2026, so stay tuned. Any conservation story that takes multiple years and locations to film has to be good, right? And we know this is one you want want to miss...