Jun 15, 2021
Joint Efforts and Joint Celebration: The Belize Sea Turtle Conservation Network
It is Sea Turtle Week and Belize’s conservation community is raising awareness of these endangered creatures, and their long journey—sometimes hundreds of miles in open water—to their nesting grounds. News Five spoke with three people leading the protection efforts in Belize.
Andrea Polanco, Reporting
Mario Muschamp is off the coast of Punta Gorda. He’s heading to a beach in the Port Honduras Marine Reserve where sea turtles nest.
Mario Muschamp, Terrestrial Manager, TIDE
“This is actually one of the better nesting sites here in the Marine Reserve and so one of the things we do during this time of the year is to walk these beaches and look for any nesting activities. What we do is we try to identify the species by measuring the track from what we see in the sand and then we try to locate the nest and once we locate the nest we take measurement to see how far that nest is from the high tide mark just to get an idea.”