More than 300,000 olive ridley turtles have arrived at a beach in southern Mexico, with thousands coming ashore in the latest mass nesting event.
The spectacle has drawn attention to the scale of the turtles’ annual nesting activity, but the survival of their hatchlings is being threatened by hotter, drier conditions linked to climate change.
While the mass arrival has brought large numbers of turtles to the coastline, increasingly difficult conditions could reduce the number of young turtles that survive after hatching.
