Volunteers and the Yucatan government released more than 200 hatchlings of the hawksbill sea turtle on Saturday, August 10, in the afternoon on the beach of Sisal, reports a bulletin from the State government.
The director of Management and Conservation of Natural Resources of the Secretariat of Sustainable Development (SDS), Toshio Yokoyama Cobá, participated together with park rangers and young volunteers from Sisal, Telchac, and Dzilam de Bravo in the release of the little turtles, returning them to their habitat natural with the hope that they can return to the Yucatecan coasts when they reach adulthood to continue their reproduction stage.
In the turtle camps, they seek to care for as many nests as possible to increase the number of turtles that reach the sea and, at the same time, the number of those that will return to our beaches to nest once they have their reproductive age.
In that sense, the SDS recognized the sum of efforts in favor of this species between the three levels of government, civil society, non-governmental organizations, and academic institutions, which allows consolidation of the fight for the conservation of these species protected due to the threat of extinction.
In what corresponds to the 2024 season, which runs from April to October, there is currently a record of 1,251 nests: 1,249 of them are Eretmochelys imbricata (hawksbill turtle), and only two nests of the Chelonia mydas species (white turtle). They are in state-run camps.
Sisal has 735 nests, Telchac Puerto 450 nests, and Dzilam Bravo 66. All this is part of the program for the Conservation and Protection of Sea Turtles in Yucatán.
As part of the actions regarding the conservation of fauna and the environment through the State government, attention is provided to this species by the Committee for the Conservation and Protection of Sea Turtles, led by the SDS, which has the support of various institutions related to the subject, from where the management protocols of the species are determined and train the volunteers.
The Committee has the participation of young volunteers from Sisal, Telchac, and Dzilam de Bravo, who are in charge of the protection, conservation, and special care of the turtles and their hatchlings.
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