Each year between July and January, volunteers regularly patrol remote Beaches with all terrain vehicles looking for turtle tracks.  When tracks are found a radio call is made to this control office, where a dig operation is organized by an armada of regular volunteers.  The eggs are brought to a security controlled fenced area where they are quickly replanted in the sand.

The eggs are incubated in the warm sand at controlled holding areas for 45 to 60 days.  These areas are kept secret from the general public.  Unfortunately turtle eggs are considered a delicacy and an aphrodisiac.  Turtles are harvested illegally for their shells, meat and oil, which are sold on the black market.  Please do not support this activity by buying suntan oil made from tortugas.

After hatching and climbing out of the sand, the baby turtles (Cacuamas) are collected and placed in a safe pool of water, while waiting for their comrades to hatch.  When all have hatched, a beach launch is immediately organized.  Batches of 60 to 100 turtles are routinely set free.

The cacuamas are released down the beach at night to prevent bird predators from devouring them.  This increases their survival rate by about 15%.  The turtles must walk down the sand to pick up the scent of the beach so they can find their way back home, similar to migrating salmon.  They swim continuous for days without eating, feeding only on their yolk sac which is still attached.

Decades later, adult turtles return to with-in 50km of their release locations.  Gorfino turtle eggs are the most abundant, but occasionally Leatherback eggs are found.  Leatherbacks are on the endangered species list.