According to the Federal Attorney for Environmental Protection (Profepa), this is an atypical event, because this species spawns only on beaches in Oaxaca, where the waters are warmer. However, on September 24 and 25, they arrived at El Medano beach in Cabo San Lucas.
Therefore, personnel from the Navy (Semar), the National Guard and the Ecology Department of the state government, guarded the place to protect and relocate the turtle nests, which were near areas used by bathers.
It is expected that at least 50 thousand eggs will hatch, which will be important for the ecosystem, because the olive ridley turtle is listed in NOM-059-SEMARNAT-2010, in the category “in danger of extinction”, and in Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).
Source: 889noticias
