Monthly:October 2010

As my Facebook friends already know, last weekend I witnessed the birth of more than 80 sea turtles on the beach of Cofete in Fuerteventura. As part of a project to reintroduce the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) in the Canary Islands their eggs are brought from the Cape Verde Islands to the Cofete beach in the south of Fuerteventura where they eventually find the right conditions to prosper. There is some historical evidence that this turtle species once had […]