This photograph of cute baby sea turtles recently hatched on the beach is a reminder that the plight of endangered species can be reversed.
I arrived at this half mile long stretch of beach in a remote part of Michoacan, Mexico just in time to see some baby turtles released. Why released? Why not naturally hatched? Here's the story. By the summer of 1996, the Olive Ridley sea turtle population that makes the beach at Ixtapilla their nesting ground had shrunk to a mere 500 adults. Both the meat and eggs of sea turtles had been a coveted dish in Mexico for centuries. This little village, with the help of international wildlife organizations, turned the tide by policing their beach, harvesting the eggs to protected areas and allowing the newly hatched babies a few days to mature before releasing them to the sea. As a result, the most recent estimate of the number of female adult sea turtles that now return to this beach to lay their eggs each summer is over 10,000!
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