Turtle Nesting Season Underway on Banderas Bay Beaches Mexico Daily Post
go to original June 23, 2022

Releasing Baby Sea Turtles Into the Ocean (Barry Ehlert)

Jesús Serrano Medina, biologist in charge of CEMBAB Playa de Oro Turtle Camp, reported that the arrival of sea turtles in Puerto Vallarta has already begun, so they expect up to 9,000 nests this season in the bay.

In this sense, he highlighted that in this month the arrival of these specimens begins and ends until December, so in Playa de Oro they have already begun with the shelter of the turtle eggs so that their young survive.

CEMBAB Playa de Oro Turtle Camp The good news is that this season they will be opening a new nursery that was built with a hotel in this area; so there will be two operating and thus have greater capacity to protect nests, since last year they could only protect a little more than 220 nests.

He stressed that it is in August and September when the massive arrivals of the turtles are recorded, so the nurseries on the beaches are filled, but the nests must be protected and when the hatching period is over, they are released in the afternoon.



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