Post by account_disabled on Feb 22, 2024 6:03:17 GMT
For the tenth consecutive year, the WWF-TELMEX Telcel Foundation Alliance will release 360 olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings ( Lepidochelys olivacea ) on the beaches of Acapulco, within the framework of the Mexican Tennis Open. Tennis players, attendees of the sporting event and volunteers will participate in the release, with the aim of raising awareness about the importance of conserving marine species for the benefit of the ecosystem and the planet. Between Wednesday, February 23 and Friday, February 25, attendees will be part of six releases on the beach in front of the Princess Mundo Imperial hotel, after listening to a talk given by biologist Eduardo Nájera, Seascape Coordinator of the World Wildlife Fund ( WWF), in which he highlighted the work carried out by the Alliance in rescuing nests, in monitoring their temperatures to analyze the balance of females and males that are born on Mexican coasts, as well as the use of satellite technology to monitor the movements of these sea turtles and help in their conservation.
During the first of these releases, Nájera shared that Mexico receives six of the seven species of sea turtles on the planet, all of them in different risk categories. “The work of the Alliance goes beyond the conservation effort for the recovery of the species, it has also become a work of environmental education. Carrying out releases allows people from cities or communities to have contact with the small Saudi Arabia Mobile Number List sea turtles that have just hatched. At that moment, a connection is generated and the participants know that, by being part of their path to the sea, they are giving one of the longest-lived marine beings on our planet the opportunity to live,” he concluded. Marcos Linares, Deputy Director of Marketing, Crossmedia & Content at Telcel, commented that the 360 released turtles are added to the 624,025 thousand hatchlings protected in nine years by the Playa Larga turtle camp, under the direction of marine ecologist Víctor Verdejo with the support of the Alliance.
The team carries out research, protection, preservation and conservation activities for sea turtles. In 24 years of protection, the camp has released 2,193,478 calves, of which 97,500 were released in 2021.” Of all the turtles that are born, only one in every thousand manages to reach adulthood. Threats such as bycatch in fishing, illegal hunting, looting of their nests, light pollution from large buildings and plastic pollution, among others, put them at risk of disappearing. The study of sea turtles through satellite tracking has contributed to the knowledge that, in the case of nesting hawksbill turtles, they travel from Banderas Bay to the Marías Islands. “Our goal is to confirm nesting on Islas Marías to increase the number of well-managed nesting beaches.
During the first of these releases, Nájera shared that Mexico receives six of the seven species of sea turtles on the planet, all of them in different risk categories. “The work of the Alliance goes beyond the conservation effort for the recovery of the species, it has also become a work of environmental education. Carrying out releases allows people from cities or communities to have contact with the small Saudi Arabia Mobile Number List sea turtles that have just hatched. At that moment, a connection is generated and the participants know that, by being part of their path to the sea, they are giving one of the longest-lived marine beings on our planet the opportunity to live,” he concluded. Marcos Linares, Deputy Director of Marketing, Crossmedia & Content at Telcel, commented that the 360 released turtles are added to the 624,025 thousand hatchlings protected in nine years by the Playa Larga turtle camp, under the direction of marine ecologist Víctor Verdejo with the support of the Alliance.
The team carries out research, protection, preservation and conservation activities for sea turtles. In 24 years of protection, the camp has released 2,193,478 calves, of which 97,500 were released in 2021.” Of all the turtles that are born, only one in every thousand manages to reach adulthood. Threats such as bycatch in fishing, illegal hunting, looting of their nests, light pollution from large buildings and plastic pollution, among others, put them at risk of disappearing. The study of sea turtles through satellite tracking has contributed to the knowledge that, in the case of nesting hawksbill turtles, they travel from Banderas Bay to the Marías Islands. “Our goal is to confirm nesting on Islas Marías to increase the number of well-managed nesting beaches.
