Flooding due to sea level rise in Playa Grande

The leatherback is critically endangered. The main causes of the global decline of its populations have been egg pillaging, nesting habitat deterioration due to accelerated urban development on some beaches and incidental capture by fishers on long lines and in nets. To these pressures is added climate change, which would affect nesting beaches and the proper development of turtle eggs in the sand due to rising sea level and incubation temperature, respectively. Specifically, rising sea level threatens to erode key nesting sites for sea turtles, where infrastructure or natural obstacles impede the landward retreat of the beaches.

The purpose of this study from WWF Marine & Species Programme for Latin America & the Caribbean is to generate inundation simulations for some scenarios of sea level rise due to climate change, which can be used to raise awareness in coastal communities about this problem and aid the management authorities of protected wild lands in designing infrastructure-free setbacks.

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Film & Animation

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• flooding
• sea level rise
• climate change
• Playa
• Grande
• Costa Rica
• eastern Pacific
• Parque
• Marino
• Las
• Baulas

[Jhensy2012]

Load of crap, sorry.

[HeadSurferCR]

What a joke, now without sea level rise the City of Puntarenas was under flood for 2 days (Feb 2,, 2010) like every 5 years since centuries. Take care of the poor people of Puntarenas and other coastal cities if really the sea will rise 1 meter. Leatherbacks has survived for 100 millions of years if they are not killed at sea they will survive for another 100 millions of years...

Playa Grande is safe and the beach is protected.

[Stayaliveful1]

No solo Playa Grande sino todos los litorales Pacífico y Caribe, se verían inundados, los pobladores desposeídos de sus pertenencias, transformados en emigrantes. Una tragedia que afectaría a niños, jóvenes, ancianos. No es un problema exclusivo de las tortugas baula que necesitarían adaptarse a anidar en suelos muy diferentes a las arenosas playas, con hierbas, lastre, piedras y hasta con cemento, al lado de decenas de casas existentes a ambos lados de vías pavimentadas.