The effect of the installation of a gas pipeline in the Obispo Isthmus in the Paria Gulf, Venezuela, is reported
here since years 2014 until 2020. The ongoing habitat degradation produced by deforestation and the consequent mudslides on the southern beach produced a hardening of the sand (ceramization), avoiding the nesting activity of the critical endangered hawksbill sea turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) which reached cero nests during each reproductive season. Hawksbills could not use the area as their reproductive grounds in those seven years. Although Obispo beach is a secondary rookery (a dozen turtle nests on a season) a compensation effect was observed in the neighbor beach of Cerezo in the same period of observation.
