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Luna and Juan in Concert When: Sunday, 22 December, 2019 at 7:00pm Where: Carretera Aeropuerto-Barra de Potosí, Lote 50-A. Playa Blanca (Wendy & Pete’s, formerly the B&B Playa Calli) Campamento Tortuguero Ayotlcalli invites you to join us for a magical musical experience on Playa Blanca. All proceeds to support the […]

Back in August, Gabriel, an eighth grade student from Colorado visited the camp as a volunteer and to work on a school project about saving endangered sea turtles. Gabe’s family visits this area regularly and his older Elaine has been able to go on a night patrols with camp volunteers […]

The 2019-2020 season is well underway.  Already this season, we have rescued 333 nests totaling 30,277 eggs (but who’s counting?!?!).  Our new, larger corral is almost full and we’re having hatchlings born almost daily now. It is the perfect time for you to show your support for the camp by […]

The 2019-2020 season is well underway.  Already this season, we have rescued 333 nests totaling 30,277 eggs (but who’s counting?!?!).  Our new, larger corral is almost full and we’re having hatchlings born almost daily now. It is the perfect time for you to show your support for the camp by […]

Hello everyone! We have been back at patrolling every night and working hard to rescue our sweet babies.  It has been a rough start to the season this year, and finally, we are ready to share what has been going on. Since beginning our patrols this year, we have had […]

The new season started in mid-July with our volunteers perhaps finding a few nests one night, none the nest, a couple of nights with nests, another night without…  But in the past week or two, we’ve seen the activity really increase with our volunteers finding and relocating ten nests just […]

The second week of summer camp was another busy one with field trips to the Amigos de Animales dog corral and cat safe house.  The campers got to spend time with the cats in their space and dogs on a nature walk and inside the corral. Later in the week, […]

This sweet kitten that we named Olivia, showed up at the camp alone recently – we’re pretty sure she was dumped from a passing car.  We have been caring for Olivia and love her but we don’t have a safe place for her to stay with us forever. Can you please […]

Yesterday, our summer campers visited the always spectacular Refuge of Barra de Potosí. All of us that live locally, and especially the children, are lucky to have such a first class facility in our small town. The mission of the refuge is the “Conservation of the flora and fauna of […]