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Randall Arauz has dedicated his much-awarded career in ocean conservation to monitoring sea turtle nesting activity under community-based models, mitigating endangered marine species interactions with commercial fisheries, and studying the movements of highly migratory endangered marine species, mainly sea turtles and sharks, in the Eastern Tropical Pacific.
His current focus is strengthening the scientific justification for the strict protection of the Cocos Galapagos Swimway, an underwater ridge that connects Costa Rica’s Cocos Island to Ecuador’s Galapagos Archipelago, and serves as a corridor for many threatened marine species – including the critically endangered hammerhead shark. Randall was Costa Rica’s delegate to CITES in 2013, when that country led the charge to list hammerhead sharks under Appendix II. He serves on the IUCN’s Species Survival Commission (SSN), and consults for the California based non-profit Marine Watch International (MWI), and Costa Rican based non-profit Endangered Marine Species Rescue Center (CREMA). Follow Randall on Facebook, and Instagram.
