Cancun, QR. The beaches of the contoy island were declared a Protected Natural Area with the category of sanctuaries for the sea turtle.
This is a decree for 17 beaches in the country, in which the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (Semarnat) made the necessary adjustments to the polygons that will make up these new areas, in order to cover nesting surfaces that did not have protection.
These sanctuaries are located in the states of Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacan, Oaxaca, Quintana Roo, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, as well as Yucatan, and will count a total of 6,637 hectares.
In the case of contoy island the area that remains under protection is a total of 10.7 hectares.
The other 16 beaches are:
- Rancho Nuevo beach in Tamaulipas.
- Lagartos River in Yucatan.
- Ceuta and Huizache Caimanero in Sinaloa.
- Mismaloya, Teopa, Cuitzmala and El Tecuán in Jalisco.
- Colola, Maruata and Mexiquillo in Michoacan.
- Tlacoyunque Stone and Tierra Colorada, in Guerrero.
- Chacahua and Escobulla in Oaxaca.
- Puerto Arista in Chiapas.
The following species come to nest on these beaches: olive ridley, leatherback, hawksbill, green -also known as white and in the Pacific as black or dark-, loggerhead and parrot.
Currently, data from 92 nesting beaches are reported by the National Commission of Protected Natural Areas (Conanp), in which the communities adjacent to the beaches participate, supported with subsidies.
Civil society organizations, students and national and international volunteers also collaborate.
Importance of Quintana Roo
Just this year, in the municipality of Benito Juárez, cancunalmost 1 million turtle hatchlings were released, despite the sargassum problems that the Mexican Caribbean went through this year.
In the presentation of theFinal report of the 2022 Sea Turtle Protection program”, the municipal authorities stressed that after the pandemic and the low influx of tourists in the stages of greatest contagion, the number of turtles that came to lay their eggs grew.
The municipal director of Ecology, Tania Fernández, explained that they managed to release 978,073 hatchlings, the majority belonging to the species chelonia mydas, also known as white turtle, however, she also acknowledged that no leatherback spawning was recorded this year.
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