This year we are excited to be able to continue supporting most of our current partners and some new projects coming online. In March we participated in the International Sea Turtle Symposium in Pattaya Thailand with the our Program Director Adriana Cortés. It was great to meet many of our turtle friends and partners and to learn about many projects around the world. Adriana was also part of the organization of the symposium as a co–chair of the Volunteer Committee and with the Live Auction team.  Our Dr. Adriana Cortes with our partners from Turtle Foundation - Janin Bartoschek (Tu ..read more

Last month, our Billion Baby Turtles program provided 2 grants totaling US $7,000 to partners in two countries. These grants will help save an estimated 7,000 hatchlings of ridleys, leatherbacks, and green turtles. This brings the total for 2022 to 45 grants totaling $245,000, protecting an estimated 2.3 million baby turtles! Palmarito, Oaxaca, Mexico (New Partner) The Palmarito Project has been operating since 2005, a nesting beach for leatherback black and olive ridley turtles, located on the migration route of sea turtles and the most important nesting area in the Mexican Pacific. They also ..read more

Our Sea Turtle Inclusivity Fund is helping to grow leaders in disadvantaged coastal communities around the world. These funds help young emerging conservationists to advance in their career and help these communities engage in efforts to protect sea turtles. We recently provided a grant to Palmarito Sea Turtle Camp in Oaxaca, Mexico for Sharon Danetsi Maldonado Bernal to become the organization’s first Ecotourism Coordinator. This grant will cover Sharon’s salary for a year to develop her leadership skills to coordinate volunteers at the camp, support nightly beach patrols, and develop her tou ..read more

We’re thrilled to have passed the 10 million hatchling milestone this past month. Check out our blog post to learn how we got there. This month, we provided 4 grants to projects in 3 countries, totaling $18,000 in grants and helping to save more than 3.5 million hatchlings this month. That brings our total for 2023 to more than 4.2 million hatchlings saved for the year. University of Michoacan, Colola Beach (Mexico) Since 2013 SEE Turtles has supported this project located on the coast of Michoacán, Mexico. Colola is the most important beach for nesting black turtles, which are a different mor ..read more

“How much does it cost to save a hatchling?” This question posed in 2013 by our co-founder Dr. Wallace J. Nichols launched Billion Baby Turtles, which has become SEE Turtles largest and most effective program. At the time, we didn’t know the cost but we figured if it was $1 per hatchling saved, it would be an effective way to raise funds for turtle nesting beaches. We approached a handful of organizations that we knew well and asked them to calculate that cost for their beaches, dividing the total project budget by the average number of hatchlings produced. Combining those first few projects ..read more

We’re excited to announce two new Sea Turtles & Plastic grants for coastal communities around the world. Our Sea Turtles & Plastic program provides crucial financial support for local organizations to address and benefit from the plastic waste arriving on their beaches. These two projects were funded from a grant from the Change Happens Foundation. To date, we have given out 14 of these grants, totaling more than US $70,000. These projects have collected more than 20,000 lbs of plastic waste, recycling more than 7,000 lbs and we’re just getting started! Our newest Sea Turtles & Pla ..read more

 In August and September, we gave a total of US$ 14,000 or our Billion Baby Turtles program, we supported 4 projects in 3 different countries. So far this year, we have supported 32 partners with a total of US $148,500 in 16 different countries, protecting an estimated 780,000 hatchlings, bringing us to more than 9 million turtles saved to date. Turtle Foundation, Sipora and Selaut Besar, Indonesia Sipora On the island of Sipora in West Sumatra, part of the Mentawai Islands, in 2017, a completely unknown to science nesting 8 km beach of the endangered leatherback turtle was discovered: Bu ..read more

July was a busy month for our Billion Baby Turtles program, we supported 7 projects in 5 different countries with US $30,000. This month we supported two of the most important nesting beaches in Costa Rica with some of the most important nesting populations for Green and Ridley turtles  (Tortuguero and Nancite respectively). With these grants we hope to help almost a million baby turtles to get to the big blue this month alone! Sea Turtle Conservancy, Tortuguero (Costa Rica)  Sea Turtle Conservancy has conducted research and monitoring Tortuguero Beach since the mid-1950s. After trav ..read more

In the last two months, our Sea Turtles & Plastic program has made tremendous progress. We gave 14 small grants (US $6,000) in 8 different countries for beach cleanups during Sea Turtle Week. We also gave two year-long beach cleanup grants for a total of US $7,000 in June and 5 recycling grants for a total of US $23,000. The cleanup grants were donated by our partner Dots Eco and the recycling grants were thanks to our donor World Nomads Footprints grogram along with donor Next Earth and our Sustainable Travel Sponsors. Sea Turtle Week With the support of our partner Dots.Eco, we were able ..read more

In the last two months, our Sea Turtles & Plastic program has made tremendous progress. We gave 14 small grants (US $6,000) in 8 different countries for beach cleanups during Sea Turtle Week. We also gave two year-long beach cleanup grants for a total of US $7,000 in June and 5 recycling grants for a total of US $23,000. The cleanup grants were donated by our partner Dots Eco and the recycling grants were thanks to our donor World Nomads Footprints grogram along with donor Next Earth and our Sustainable Travel Sponsors. Sea Turtle Week With the support of our partner Dots.Eco, we were able ..read more