Gladys Porter Zoo – Mexico (2023)

© Hector Chenge

Rancho Nuevo Sanctuary in Tamaulipas, Mexico is the largest nesting beach for critically endangered Kemp’s ridley sea turtles in Mexico. Because of this, most resources and monitoring efforts are concentrated on this beach despite the existence of important secondary nesting beaches nearby.

Gladys Porter Zoo will initiate a PIT tagging program at Altamira and Miramar, two important satellite nesting beaches for Kemp’s ridleys near Rancho Nuevo, as part of the Mexico-U.S. Binational Kemp’s Ridley Recovery Program.