On Mexico's Escobilla Beach female Olive Ridleys arrive each month from July to March to lay their eggs. Numbers peak at night for a period of about a week around the full moons. This spectacular phenomenon is known as an arribada and brings thousands of turtles on the beach to lay their eggs in sand nests. During this period, millions of eggs are deposited, which federal and state authorities and civil society will protect daily from the looting for sale on the black market. Once the hatchling emerge from their sandy nests they rush to the ocean.
