Sentences with phrase «sea turtle nesting time»

It's sea turtle nesting time in the tropics, but unfortunately so many perils face newborn sea turtles that it's estimated that only 1 in 1,000 will make it to maturity.

Not exact matches

«At the time of the film's development, no one was able to connect the dots between the phenomenon of the mass nesting and that the nests belonged to the Kemp's ridley sea turtles,» Wibbels said.

During a two - year period, Herrera flew his own plane 33 times over the Gulf Coast north of Tampico, Mexico, conducting aerial surveys in search of the mass sea turtle nesting.

We drove through Akumal in late February however we didn't have time to snorkel with sea turtles that day.

It is the perfect place to take first - time divers not only for all the marine life (sea turtle, yellow tails, snappers, trumpet fish, sting rays, cow fish and a wild variety of crustaceans like lobsters and shrimps) that lives on the coral reef, but also for the safety and protection that the reef and the island bring to the divers — especially to first - time divers.

If you come at the right time of year, you can observe the sea turtles nesting on the beach.

Man vs World will feature more about Gili Trawangan in the future; manly stuff, like the remarkable true story of my tussle with a sea snake and a turtle (not at the same time).

The bay is also known for its abundance of turtles, although I wasn't lucky enough to see one this time (read about my close encounters with sea snakes and turtles in Gili Trawangan, Indonesia), no matter how desperate I was to catch a glimpse of one.

RR is in a great location 150 Meter walk to the beach, where there are umbrellas and beach chairs, the beach is not crowded, and 100 meters west you have Bright Reef where we snorkelled several times a day with all the Sea turtles and an amazing array of fish and marine life.

UPDATED, 8:00 a.m.: For the first time since the 1930's, federal biologists confirmed that a leatherback sea turtle has nested on a Texas beach, at the Padre Island National Seashore near Corpus Christi.

The Tico Times in Costa Rica has been providing valuable updates since the murder late last week of Jairo Mora Sandoval, a 26 - year - old guardian of sea turtle nests on Moín Beach on the country's Caribbean coast near the town of Limón.

Nesting biology of sea turtles is strongly affected by temperature, both in timing and in the determination of the sex ratio of hatchlings (Hays et al., 2003), but implications for population size are unknown.