On the night of July 29, students and volunteers from the turtle camp of the Cetmar 17 school in Progreso, together with members of the Corazones Unidos association, participated in a new release of sea turtles.
On this occasion, the site chosen for the release was the traditional promenade at 76th Street. According to official information, they released 150 hawksbill turtles, which they also rescued on this beach in their nests after 60 days of nesting, at Cetmar 17.
The event was public, so it caught the attention of at least a hundred people who gathered around the area delimited by the volunteers.
Due to the crowds, experts gave details of the rescue and the importance of this marine species.
The turtle rescuers announced they considered the rescue successful because they released all the hatchlings into the sea.
However, they clarified that perhaps only one will reach adulthood and, in the future, it will return to the same coast to leave her eggs, just as her mother did.
Biologist Carlos León from Cetmar 17 said that we are in the most intense nesting stage, so we will surely see more and more nests and turtles nesting along the Yucatecan coast.
During the event, while the release was taking place, a hawksbill turtle appeared and lay its eggs a few meters away from where the activity took place.
In the end, the camp volunteers collected money among the attendees to raise funds for the maintenance and expenses of the camp and the healing of the specimens, usually treated for various injuries, at the hands of the biologists and specialists.
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