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Thousands of onlookers gathered on Monday on Malaquite Beach in the Padre Island National Seashore eagerly awaiting the release of the Kemp’s ridley sea turtle hatchlings.
The rangers opened the Styrofoam boxes that held the hatchlings and started to place them on the sand. Some turtles eager to get out started inching slowly toward the water; others sat where they were placed.
From 1947 to 1981 the population of those turtles was almost extirpated, due mostly in part to human activities, Shaver said.
Although Kemp’s ridley sea turtle is native nester with their main nesting in Tamaulipas, Mexico, work started in the 1970s to form a secondary nesting colony on Padre Island in Corpus Christi. This provides the turtles a safe nesting area in case something was to happen at the primary nesting beach.
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