THOUSANDS OF GOLFINAS TORTOISES WERE LIBERATED IN PUERTO VALLARTA

By the natural beauties Puerto Vallarta is a paradisiacal place enjoyed so much by human beings like by different animal species, among them the tortoise, that from always has chosen the beaches of this destination to spawn. The conservation of the ecological balance means the well-being and the safeguard of the species humanizes. Following ideal this one, for 16 years Puerto Vallarta made own a project for the preservation and protection of the tortoise, as a whole with dependences of Government and private companies. The project is based on a program that consists in: to expect for the arrival of adult tortoises to spawn (they go out of the sea in the night and the morning) later to leave their eggs in nests that dig in the sand.

Immediately the people at the expense of the program gather them and sow them in turtle corrals where they are jealous watched. Once passed the 45 to 50 days needed for incubation, starts the liberation. This is during the last days of August. The summer and the autumn are the best seasons to take part in this wonderful experience, since during these months, almost every day blossoming are produced and the little turtles get free. During the liberation, hotels and dependences that count with this program, give information to the guests about why these tortoises prefer the beaches of Puerto Vallarta and the dangers that these traverse. Later the turtles are placed by visitors and local people, in the sand near where the waves come, allowing themselves to tackle their race against the destiny, having to swim steadily, for four days, to get away the most possible of the dangerous zone for them, the coast, since natural predators of them like the birds. Statistics indicate that with these efforts only between 3% and 5% of the liberated tortoises will survive.

Likewise, as part of this Program of Conservation and Liberation of golfinas tortoises in Puerto Vallarta for this 2009, Kellogg Company Mexico joined with the H. Town hall of Puerto Vallarta, announced the liberation of 60,000 tortoises, which will be liberated in the sea, in a period of one year as result of the campaign "Liberates a Tortoise", that Kellogg started from April 20 and up to that of June 20 of the year in process. Likewise, the donation of $120,000 pesos granted as support to this ecological institution to continue with the preservation of this one species on the verge of extinction. It is important to remember that programs and campaigns of this type receive major transcendence, especially when it thinks that in their natural environment of every 1,000 tortoises that born, only between one and five will survive until the adult age, and these will be late between 8 and 12 years in maturing the sufficient thing to be able to reproduce by first time and return to spawn to the same beach where they were born. The importance of protection programs of marine tortoises in Mexico, there in that the Mexican littorals shelter 7 of 8 existing species in the world.

In every season the tortoises can return 3 times, depositing in every time from 80 to 120 eggs, and in occasions up to 160. Some of the hotels of Puerto Vallarta that work in this program of conservation are: Velas Vallarta Suite & Resort, Sheraton Buganvilias Resort, Dreams Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa, Casa Magna Marriott Puerto Vallarta Resort & Spa y el Presidente Inter-Continental. During the season 2008 were liberated more than 81,000 tortoises golfinas in the beaches of Puerto Vallarta, assuring with this that the turtle population should increase approximately in 8,000 tortoises, of which, the females in 10 years will return to spawn to the same beach that saw them to be born.

To live the experience of freedom a tortoise, learning of the importance of take care the nature and the animal species that surround the human being, especially those who are already on the verge of extinction, it is a moment that Puerto Vallarta shares with local and visitors. Give yourself the opportunity to be part of this ecological miracle. Come, Give Freedom a tortoise and live Puerto Vallarta!