This summer I went to Isla de Pajaros not only to rest and meet people but also to save Golfina turtles, a species that is not already endangered but it was very recently. Until now, is still very common the illegal trade of the supposedly aphrodisiac eggs of marine turtles and their fins. Some dealers are able to kill an adult turtle only to sell it's body parts by five hundred pesos.
Some organizations and several independent rural communities have created camps with the goal of protect the biggest number of eggs. One of them is Isla de Pajaros, where locals and biologists organize camps every summer inviting guys from many countries. The idea is to patrol in the night the rounding shore looking for turtles or footprints of these animals, to pull out the eggs from the original nest made by the mom-turtle and to put them in a human-made corral in order to increase the number of born eggs. The preservation of the eggs is also like a moral undertaking that locals promote to their children with no need to have something in return.
The human-made nests:
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