Camera traps reveal eleven familiar faces in Tortuguero’s forests
Researchers working along Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast have individually identified eleven jaguars through camera-trap photographs in and around Tortuguero National Park and nearby Playa Tres. The new report offers a clearer view of animals that usually move through dense forest beyond human sight.
Turtle Love’s monitoring project, running since 2023, uses twelve camera stations inside the park and seven at Playa Tres, near Barra de Parismina. Each jaguar’s distinctive coat helps researchers recognise it again, building a record of movements and behaviour without capturing the animal.
The number is a count of identified individuals, not an estimate of the entire local population. Continued monitoring also examines how the cats use a coast that is an important sea-turtle nesting area, linking forest research with the region’s marine conservation work. The Tico Times report
