Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update May 2008 As the year passes by the activities at the Tecoman Biological center are increasing day by day. The high season for the turtle Conservation program is practically around the corner, so the maintenance and equipment purchase is due to be in order as soon as possible.

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update April 2008 By the end of the first trimester of the year, the activities at the Coastal conservation center have started to increase and the maintenance activities give the volunteers the opportunity to do some hard labor and at the same time join our conservation programs.

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update March 2008 As this year passes by, all our efforts focus on the maintenance of our equipment in order to be ready for the start of the high season for turtles. The patrols also remain constant as the presence must be kept in the area, even though the number of turtles coming out to lay eggs is low. It is still important to collect data from the low season which can help track the changes taking place over the years to the figures. Deterring the poachers is also still important and makes our presence essential.

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update January 2008 By the middle of the Leather Back season we are really proud to report the collection of 16 nests so far, and we have already released our first offspring of this season. We were pleased with the survival rate of the buried hatchlings and on Monday 4th February we had the opportunity to release around 45 small leatherback turtles!

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update December 2007 We finished our Olive Ridley season with impressive numbers, (2,192 nests collected). A good effort and many sleepless nights brought up great results, as these numbers do not reflect the amount of turtles that came out to lay their eggs on our beach, but our capacity to collect them. It has been a great effort from our staff and our volunteers, and has placed us among the most prolific beaches regarding Olive Ridley conservation in Mexico.

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update November 2007 As if she was trying to save us from the effort of patrolling the beach, a Black Turtle came out to lay her eggs right outside our incubation area! With more than a meter in length this gracious creature laid over 70 eggs and we had the chance to view the whole process since the nest was not more than a meter away from the corral (incubation area).

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update October 2007 The turtle season is reaching its peak at the moment, we have had some really rough nights with 50 or 60 nests daily, apparently the storm season is really helping out the turtles to come out and lay their nests, in any case, this means a lot more work for us!

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update September 2007 We have had a lot of recent turtle activity here as a result of the high season, including the nightly escapades of hatchlings to the building instead of the sea. In one night 100 nests were collected. These nests are set to hatch by the end of this month or the beginning of the next, so we will have our hands full with baby turtles!

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update August 2007 The peak of the high season is here and the volunteers are having great fun experiencing it! Throughout the month the number of nests collected per night has been increasing and on average we are finding 20 nests a night. Recently, however, we have had the perfect weather for turtles, which is strong southerly winds, and have collected a record for this season of 96 nests in one night. That’s 9747 turtle eggs that we are protecting from poachers, animals and bad weather!

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update July 2007 July has been our busiest month so far this year with 21 volunteers helping our conservation efforts. As a result of their keen efforts we have discovered new species of birds for our species list at the lagoon including a wood stork Mycteria americana and a white throated swift (Aeronautes saxatalis). We have also been lucky by recently spotting many green iguanas (Iguana iguana) swimming and climbing on vegetation which was very exciting for the groups that saw them.

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update May 2007 With good results in the past two seasons, the Projects Abroad team along with CONANP (National Commission for Protected Natural Areas) are uniting our efforts to together raise significantly the results expected for this season. From 1,947 re-buried nests last year we hope this year to reach 2,500 nests!

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update April 2007 We have recently had the joyous occasion to release the Leather Back turtle hatchlings as a successful result from the nests last month. These hatchlings were treated with great fascination by the volunteers as they are much larger and stronger than the Olive Ridleys that are also hatching daily.

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update March 2007 The end of the Leather Back Turtle season gives us the opportunity to wait eagerly to see their offspring hatch out in our corral. This year we found 24 Leather Back Turtle nests, which surpassed our expectations, as this species has a two year cycle lay period and last year we were amazed to collect 63 nests!

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update February 2007 New Crocodile Project forms part of Tecoman Conservation Work. Whilst all the new activities are running well this year in our conservation program, we are particularly excited about the successful start of our Crocodile Project at the Crocodile Farm “La Colorada”.

Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update January 2007 Mexico Tecoman turtle camp: Our Conservation Project begins the New Year with many exciting challenges for our volunteers to face. With the arrival of the very rare Leather Back Turtles and new interesting programs that will expand our activities to a larger area, we can only expect more exciting times to come in the near future.