Mass nesting event brings more than 100,000 olive ridley sea turtles to Oaxaca’s Playa Escobilla
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More than 100,000 olive ridley sea turtles came ashore at Oaxaca’s Playa Escobilla in a single mass nesting event last week, but the spectacle masks a fragile reproductive outlook: As few as 30% to 40% of the eggs may hatch.
According to the newspaper El Universal Oaxaca, 101,500 females emerged from the Pacific Ocean in Santa María Tonameca last Tuesday in a huge, synchronous nesting event known as an arribada.
The sixth arribada (literally “arrival” in Spanish) of the 2026-27 season lifted t
According to the newspaper El Universal Oaxaca, 101,500 females emerged from the Pacific Ocean in Santa María Tonameca last Tuesday in a huge, synchronous nesting event known as an arribada.
The sixth arribada (literally “arrival” in Spanish) of the 2026-27 season lifted t
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