“…Females dig nest chambers on the beach, and after oviposition they cover their eggs, camouflage the nest site and return to the ocean. During incubation, eggs are exposed to several threats that can cause a significant embryo mortality (Ditmer and Stapleton, 2012) such as beach flooding or erosion (Van Houtan and Bass, 2007;Wood et al, 2000), infections produced by microorganisms (Phillott and Parmenter, 2001;Sarmiento-Ramírez et al, 2010), poaching (Frazier, 1980;Hope, 2002), natural predation (Dodd, 1988;Donlan et al, 2004;Fowler, 1979) and even expected redundant impacts by off-road vehicles (ORVs) on sandy beaches (Schlacher et al, 2008). Carnivore mammals are considered the most important turtle nest predators (Ratnaswamy and Warren, 1998), and the regulation of mammalian carnivores (e.g.…”