Blogs from sunflower - CancunTurtles https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/blogger/sunflower Tue, 21 Sep 2021 07:05:07 -0500 Website created by te-media | Creative Digital Solutions en-gb How many sea turtle nests were protected in Cancun so far? https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/how-many-sea-turtle-nests-were-protected-in-cancun-so-far https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/how-many-sea-turtle-nests-were-protected-in-cancun-so-far Today the Secretary of Ecology invited all parties that are participating in their Sea Turtle Protection Program to a meeting. Among other topics they announced this years numbers of collected and protected sea turtle nests as of September 5.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Fri, 08 Sep 2017 18:11:43 -0500 Lots of lovely hatchlings and more mother turtles https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/lots-of-lovely-hatchlings-and-more-mother-turtles https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/lots-of-lovely-hatchlings-and-more-mother-turtles It’s the end of August and time to give you an update.

So far this year has been amazing with never before seen numbers of mother turtles coming to our beach section to nest.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Thu, 31 Aug 2017 18:55:20 -0500 Hooray! We have baby turtles! https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/hooray-we-have-baby-turtles https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/hooray-we-have-baby-turtles While still huge numbers of mother turtles come to the beach to lay their eggs, yesterday in the early morning hours the first baby turtles of the sea turtle season 2017 from nest 1 and 2 hatched.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Fri, 28 Jul 2017 11:31:02 -0500 More turtles and second extension of our protection area https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/more-turtles-and-second-extension-of-our-protection-area https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/more-turtles-and-second-extension-of-our-protection-area Only 9 days after extending our protection area for the first time and already fearing we went a little bit over the top, the huge new space was nearly full yesterday and we had to make room for more turtle nests.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Tue, 25 Jul 2017 12:17:01 -0500 Protection Corral extended https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/protection-corral-extended https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/protection-corral-extended With quite large numbers of sea turtles nesting on our beach this year, our protection corral filled up quickly and two days ago we had no more space for new nests. So exactly 1 month after originally building our corral we had to extend the protection area yesterday.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Sat, 15 Jul 2017 15:09:26 -0500 What a crazy sea turtle season – Update July 10 https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/what-a-crazy-sea-turtle-season-update-july-10 https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/what-a-crazy-sea-turtle-season-update-july-10 The last 10 days at the beach have been really crazy with 9 to 20 (!) turtles laying eggs each night. This brings us to a total of 273 nests with more than 32,000 eggs that we currently protect in our corral; 30% more than in 2015 at the same time and an increase of 120% compared to last year.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Mon, 10 Jul 2017 20:42:53 -0500 Results of Cancun’s Sea Turtle season 2016 https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/results-of-cancun-s-sea-turtle-season-2016 https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/results-of-cancun-s-sea-turtle-season-2016 First of all a Happy New Year to all our followers, volunteers and friends.

A few weeks ago the last baby turtles hatched and were released into the ocean; and finally we got the end results for the sea turtle season 2016 for whole Cancun. According to the Department of Ecology, the ones responsible for the program:

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Mon, 02 Jan 2017 17:46:17 -0500 We've done it! https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/we-ve-done-it https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/we-ve-done-it Yesterday our last two nests hatched and we could release another 67 baby sea turtles. With this our sea turtle season is over and it’s time to “balance the books”.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Wed, 14 Dec 2016 08:34:53 -0500 TV Report about Sea Turtle Protection Program in Cancun features us https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/tv-report-about-sea-turtle-protection-program-in-cancun-features-us https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/tv-report-about-sea-turtle-protection-program-in-cancun-features-us The sea turtle season 2016 is coming to an end. With 422 collected and protected nests with nearly 50,000 eggs we, as in the previous year, looked after the most turtle eggs in our corral and released the most hatchlings in the Cancun area. The Department of Ecology, responsible for the sea turtle protection program on Cancun’s beaches, therefore asked Tim, the one in charge of our small project, to use our protection corral for a short TV report and to participate in an interview.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Sun, 27 Nov 2016 13:00:35 -0500 Tiny Albino Green Sea Turtle hatchling surprises us as turtle season is coming to an end https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/tiny-albino-green-sea-turtle-hatchling-surprises-us-as-turtle-season-is-coming-to-an-end https://www.cancunturtles.com/blog/tiny-albino-green-sea-turtle-hatchling-surprises-us-as-turtle-season-is-coming-to-an-end It’s the beginning of October and sea turtle season is coming to an end. The last few nights only a handful mother turtles came ashore to nest, so our work now is shifting more and more to releasing our lovely sea turtle hatchlings and cleaning the nests by opening them, removing empty eggs shells / undeveloped eggs and “rescuing” the one or other baby trapped in the nest underneath all the trash.

]]> contact@te-media.com (sunflower) News Mon, 03 Oct 2016 18:17:23 -0500