The Escobilla

Due to the lack of opportunities, Sostenes has been involved in the excessive commercialization of meat and eggs of sea turtles that every year arrive on the beaches of his community since his childhood. Over time this practice becomes illegal due to the impact it has on the habitat.
To control the situation, the government installs the Navy with whom the population has fatal confrontations because the economic situation forces them to continue looting. With the sailors, allies also arrive, scientists who study the phenomenon of "arrival" of turtles, they will try to influence the community to find alternatives for resource management. Sostenes finds a friendship in one of them that will be a great influence on his new awareness and decision-making to seek a change in his lifestyle.
After several attempts, they manage to consolidate an ecotourism cooperative that sought to take advantage of the turtles, but this time, alive. When the path was traced, the people who continued with the looting and who opposed this change tried to stop the initiative by burning the cooperative's facilities.

With the encouragement that the creation of their Organization had given them and the fear of returning to the old conditions, Sostenes and his community returned to build with great effort and many sacrifices a new place to install their Cooperative

To date and with several years of operation, the ecotourism cooperative "La Escobilla" has contributed to the increase in the population of turtles and improvement of the living conditions of the community on scales that they would never have imagined.