In progress, the spawning and release of turtles, here Olive Ridley turtles arrive

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In 2012, five hundred and fifty seven protected nests were recorded, and for this season 600 nests with about 60 thousand eggs are expected

The season of protection and conservation "Marine Turtle Puerto Vallarta 2013" is already underway, along seven months actions of patrol, inspection, verification and conservation of this species will be conducted in the entire territory of this municipality.

"From July 2013 to January 2014, nests and hatcheries will be relocated. What is relevant is that the tourism sector participates in this process of incubation and release. In 2012, five hundred and fifty seven protected nests were recorded, and for this season 600 nests with about 60 thousand eggs are expected, said Luis Fernando Gonzalez Guevara, director of Municipal Ecology.

Every night patrols are conducted for several kilometers of beach to locate the turtles that arrive to lay their eggs. The eggs are collected and taken to nurseries like the one of the municipality that is located on the Holiday Inn beach, where more than 180 new turtle eggs arrived last night; previously releases of the specie were made.

The tours are necessary to prevent people from harming or stealing the turtle eggs because, even though it is a federal crime, there are those who are willing to make that ecocide.

It is noteworthy that in the region, in late July, the first official release of hatchlings in the Nuevo Vallarta turtle camp was made, as part of the environmental education activities of the Blue Flag Certification Program that bears the Nuevo Vallarta Norte beach in this destination.

This beach, nonetheless the important tourist development that it has, has the highest number of arrivals historically recorded in the region. Some data of the National Sea Turtle Conservation Program of the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (Conanp) indicate that in 2012 there were 51 thousand olive ridley nests in the Mexican Pacific. Of which six thousand were within 14 miles of beaches of Nuevo Vallarta.

According to the biologist Adrian Maldonado, of the Instituto Tecnológico de Bahía de Banderas (ITBB), the studies conducted with a group of his students, locate Nuevo Vallarta in number of arrivals over other camps in less developed areas such as the beach El Naranjo, near Peñita de Jaltemba.

The historical data analysis to ten years indicates that sea turtles placed an average of 250 nests per year per kilometer in Nuevo Vallarta. In 2007 alone, six thousand ridley came to that place.

[readon1 url="http://vallartaopina.net/2013/08/15/en-marcha-epoca-de-desove-y-liberacion-de-tortugas-aqui"]Source: Vallarta Opina Translated by Rene Tripp[/readon1]