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Padre Island National SeashoreSunrise over the Gulf of Mexico
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Padre Island National Seashore
Cooperating Association
 
WNPA headquarters in Tucson, AZ
Photo courtesy of WNPA
WNPA headquarters in Tucson, AZ

The National Seashore's cooperating association is Western National Parks Association, which is a non-profit organization. All proceeds are returned to more than 63 affiliated parks in eleven western states to fund educational, scientific, and research programs not supported by taxes. 

At the Malaquite Visitors Center, WNPA operates a small bookstore carrying postcards, magnets, posters, bookmarks, and a wide variety of books on local history, birds, sea turtles, other local wildlife, and much more.

For more information contact the park's WNPA representative at (361) 949-8068 or wnpa@pais.org.

Please follow this link to the WNPA website.

Nesting Kemp's ridley sea turtle  

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Kemp's ridley sea turtles are both the smallest and the most endangered sea turtles in the world and that they are found primarily in the Gulf of Mexico?
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Last Updated: August 25, 2006 at 16:43 EST