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Royal Resorts Cares: Turtle Season 2010 Final Statistics
The last turtle hatchlings of the year are long gone and the final statistics for the 2010 nesting season at Royal Resorts have just been released. The tally for The Royal Mayan, The Royal Caribbean and The Royal Islander was 192 nests protected and 18,875 baby turtles released and at The Royal...
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Royal Resorts Turtle News
Royal Resorts Turtle News October 29 UPDATE: Everyone's invited to join us today, Friday October 29, at 8:00 p.m. in front of the "A" building at The Royal Sands. We'll be releasing more just-hatched baby turtles into the sea as part of the Royal Resorts Turtle Protection Program. You can't...
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Turtle Update
It has a been a busy few days for the turtles at The Royal Sands, eight females nested at the weekend and three more on Monday, bringing the tally to 63 nests and 7,628 eggs. A further 180 hatchlings were released last night to begin life at sea. The overwhelming majority of our summer visitors to...
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Welcome to the World
We are delighted to announce the birth of the first sea turtles of the season earlier today at The Royal Sands. All 117 are doing fine and will be released after dark tonight when there are fewer bird predators such as sea gulls and frigate birds around. If you have ever gently held a baby turtle...
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Turtle News
It was a very busy weekend at The Royal Sands with 10 turtle nests registered, bringing the season's tally to 52 nests and 6,308 eggs. No eggs have hatched so far although the security department expects this to start later this week. As ever, we will keep you posted on our summer visitors...
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Turtle News
The tally of turtles at The Royal Sands now stands at 40 nests and 4,849 eggs while The Royal Caribbean has still only registered one nest. We will keep you posted on our incredible summer visitors and let you know when the eggs start to hatch. ...
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Keeping Track of the Turtles
Records are indeed made to be broken and last night The Royal Sands welcomed a green turtle that laid 207 eggs! This incredible mom brought the tally of nests to 37 and protected eggs to 4,446. The Royal Caribbean has now registered one loggerhead nest with 154 eggs. Meanwhile at The Royal...
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Latest Turtle News
The tally for the turtle season to date is 15nests and 1,678 eggs at The Royal Sands. The Royal Mayan, Caribbean and Islander are yet to register their first nest. We will keep you posted on the arrival of our special summer visitors and let you know when the eggs hatch and the baby turtles are...
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First Turtle of the Season
Each summer, we eagerly await the arrival of our oceangoing visitors, the sea turtles that nest on beaches throughout the Mexican Caribbean, and at 12:30 a.m. on June 13, The Royal Sands welcomed its first turtle of 2009. The green turtle in question dug her nest in the sand in front of...
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