Between June and November, tortoise females reach the beaches of western Mexico to lay their eggs in the warm sand and ensure their reproduction.
About 45 days later, hundreds of youngsters leave their nest to return to the sea, a cycle that specialists consider "normal" in the spawning season.
However, this cycle is increasingly changing, says Vicente Peña, operational manager of the Tortuguera Network, a civil organization that brings together a dozen camps dedicated to the protection of that animal along the banks of Jalisco and Nayarit.
Camp biologists and volunteers have had to extend spawning season activities one . . .
