Welcome
AMA Mexico (Association for Environmental Unity in Mexico) is a Mexican non-profit organization devoted to the protection of the natural resources and ecology of Mexico’s Pacific Coast. Our current focus is on the conservation of the endangered Olive Ridley Sea Turtle and its nesting habitat on the north shore of Bahia de Banderas (the Bay of Banderas), in the State of Nayarit, just 15 kilometers (10 miles) north of Puerto Vallarta.
While we are in the process of building this “New & Improved” website, you are invited to peruse our older website.
We are the Future! AMA Mexico is dedicated to the education of future generations of turtle conservationists. Hundreds of children from Mexico and abroad participate in activities each year that encourage them to become stewards of the oceans. By working with Mexico’s Ministry of Education in Nayarit’s local schools and by offering hands-on experience during hatchling releases, we hope to instill in these eager visitors to the Nuevo Vallarta Sea Turtle Preserve a love of the sea and all its precious creatures.
Baby sea turtle hatchling release, July 2011.
Video Notes: A release of baby Olive Ridley sea turtles at the “Campamento Tortuguero” (Nuevo Vallarta Sea Turtle Preserve), July 2001.
Tourists and locals are invited to the nightly “liberacción” in which a 10-minute “turtle talk” is followed by the release of baby turtles, all of whom have hatched in the preceding 24 hours.
This video is a “test run,” a “proof of concept” for the newly-created YouTube channel for AMA Mexico, a Mexican non-profit NGO dedicated to supporting the sea turtle preservation efforts along the 8.5 mile stretch of beach in Nuevo Vallarta, Nayarit, Mexico.
