São Vicente's turtle watch recorded 86 nests and a thousand hatchlings
The Ponta d'Pom campaign logged 63 nests at Praia Grande and 23 at Praia do Lazareto. Tracks are visits, not a count of individual turtles.
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The Ponta d'Pom sea turtle campaign on São Vicente recorded 86 nests and 184 tracks this season, and it helped release more than a thousand hatchlings. Inforpress reported the tally on November 2, 2026, from biologist Zuleica Duarte, who leads the work for the campaign's nonprofit. She called the season encouraging, and she also described worries about the animals' safety and about how few resources the monitors have.
Praia Grande held 63 nests and 133 tracks. Praia do Lazareto held 23 nests and 51 tracks. Duarte said a track is not the same thing as a different turtle, because one animal can come ashore more than once. The figures are this year's nests, tracks, and hatchlings on those beaches. They are not a count of every turtle in Cabo Verde's waters.
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On São Vicente in Cabo Verde, a sea turtle team recorded 86 nests this season and helped more than a thousand hatchlings reach the water. Inforpress reported the numbers on November 2, 2026. Biologist Zuleica Duarte said 63 nests were at Praia Grande and 23 at Praia do Lazareto. A track in the sand is a visit, and the same turtle can come ashore more than once, so the tracks are not different turtles one for one. She called the season encouraging and said monitors are short of gear. The news is this season's nests and hatchlings.
- Why can't you count turtles just by counting the trails they leave in the sand?
- What could a beach visitor do at night so a nesting turtle is not frightened away?
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