The rarest sea turtle in the world nests almost entirely on a single stretch of Mexican coast, and in 1985 the count of nesting females fell to a few hundred. Part of the recovery ran through Galveston: a federal laboratory here has raised Kemp's ridley hatchlings through their most vulnerable first year for decades, and turtles now nest on Texas beaches again in numbers that were unimaginable in the 1980s. They are the smallest sea turtle, and the only one that nests in mass daylight arrivals rather than alone at night.
Getting there
29.3100, -94.7900
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