Tortugranja

This guide to Tortugranja on Isla Mujeres traces the sanctuary back to a single fisherman who, in the 1960s, asked his neighbors to stop taking turtle eggs and meat from this beach. It follows how that quiet campaign grew into a government-backed sanctuary, and the 2021 land dispute that shut the place down without warning, leaving the turtles in limbo. World Sea Turtle Day, June sixteenth, is the date that later turned up in the story of what came next.