SEA TURTLES

Sea turtles nest along the sandy beaches and forage amongst the lush seagrass beds and vibrant coral reefs in many areas WILDCOAST is working to conserve.

Image Credit: Ralph Pace

Mexico's Most Important Sea Turtle Nesting Beach

Morro Ayuta is a 9 mile stretch of beach on Mexico's Oaxacan coast where more than 1 million Olive Ridley sea turtle's laid 90 million eggs producing 30 million hatchlings during the nesting season.

Image Credit: Claudio Contreras-Koob

Coastal development, pollution, poaching, disasters such as oil spills, and climate change pose tremendous threats to sea turtle populations worldwide.

WILDCOAST is providing trainings and workshops for park rangers, tourism outfitters and local communities, protecting nesting beaches through federal zone concessions and working to establish new protected areas that are critical to sea turtles’ survival.

Protect

We protect sea turtle nesting beaches in
the Mexican Pacific through federal zone
concessions, monitoring, scarab beetle
control and community outreach
and engagement.

Image Credit: Claudio Contreras

Partner

To protect critical sea turtle habitat, we
work in partnership with the
National Mexican Turtle Center, Mexico’s
National Commission for Protected
Natural Areas (CONANP) and local
communities.

Image Credit: Claudio Contreras

Our Impact

54.5

miles of sea turtle nesting beaches protected through federal zone concessions along Mexico’s Pacific coast

16%

increase in sea turtle hatchling survival on Morro Ayuta beach

65

miles of Oaxaca’s nesting beaches protected by implementing Oil Spill Readiness Response

14

arribadas monitored during Morro Ayuta’s 2016/17 nesting season

1,000

local youth educated on sea turtle conservation

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