Helping Turtles in Mexico
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Newly-hatched Kemp's ridley sea turtles are being released into the Gulf of Mexico at Tepehuajes, Mexico near the Texas-Mexico border. Mexican and U.S. wildlife agencies worked together with the fishing and shrimping industry to help protect habitat and these turtles.