Let's end on another bit of good news

Reports out of Mexico City say that

[s]ea turtles are spawning in record numbers along Mexico's Pacific coast this year, thanks largely to stepped up protection against poachers, the nation's environmental watchdog said.

Some 27.2 million Olive Ridley turtle eggs are under guard in nests at main breeding beaches in Oaxaca state, the environmental protection agency Profepa said. Of those, about 9 million are likely to hatch, the highest numbers in 20 years, the agency said. ...

Mexico has several varieties of sea turtles, and they are typically ravaged by natural predators, erratic weather and human hunters seeking their meat and eggs, sold illegally in big cities as a delicacy.

Man is their biggest threat and some of the turtles are still in danger.

But the Olive Ridley has made a comeback, with hundreds of thousands arriving to lay eggs under beach sands this year in a spectacular annual ritual that has taken place for centuries.

An indication of the tenuousness of a young turtle's life can be found in the fact that of the 9 million eggs that hatch (only a third of those laid), only about 30,000 will make it to adulthood, a mortality rate of close to 99.7%. It's easy to see what a devastating impact poachers taking a few thousand turtles a year could have.