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| Seri Leatherback Release Ceremony |
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During the first week in February, five members of the indigenous Seri community of Mexico had the opportunity to perform an ancient and nearly forgotten 4-day leatherback release ceremony. In collaboration with Pro Peninsula, the Grupo Tortuguero and ASUPMATOMA, a group of Seri traveled to Agua Blanca, BCS, a leatherback nesting beach on the east cape of the peninsula, to renew their spiritual and cultural practices to protect the leatherback sea turtle. Due to declines in leatherback populations, the last time the Seri people were able to perform their sacred four-day ceremony celebrating the animal was in 1981. This monumental event helped the Seri elders pass this important tradition on to the next generation of conservationists, the Seri youth. |
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