Help Protect Endangered Sea Turtles in Curacao

The 2019 season is slowly coming to an end. However, we are still seeing nesting activities and the monitoring of the beaches still continues. We check all the beaches 3 times a week. It hasn't been the best season. So far we registered a little over 30 nests. 

The turtle rescues are also a regular activity for our staff. Mostly Ard Vreugdenhil is the one to go out and help injured turtles. We so far had 2 incidents with loggerheads, otherwise it is mostly green turtles that are in distress. 

This season we had 4 interns assisting us. 2 of them already finished their internship and returned back home. The 7th of November all of them gave a presentation for interested volunteers about their work.

Amber, Isa and Nicky focussed on sea turtle population research. They collect and order data about resident sea turtles and they use oictures of the turtles to identify the individual turtles.

Eva focussed on education. We set up a specifically designed education program in collaboration with Green Phenix and FBTT travel. 3000 kids got a presentation about sea turtles and the threat of plastic pollution. We also incentivised the kids to collect plastic bottles and this worked better then expected, because kids collected a total of 30573 plastic bottles, that will be locally recycled, which prevents the plastic from ending up in the ocean. 

Also we are working on an expension of our #artforawareness piece in Sambil. More about this will follow soon!

Dear donor,

We are happy to announce the publication of our annual report of 2018. Although it came out a little later than we have hoped, we are very proud of the end result and all the activities that took place in 2018.

Many thanks to everybody involved with STCC in 2018, everybody involved with putting together this report and special thanks to Karina Vasiljeva to make the great layout of the report.

We hope you will enjoy reading it and we would like to sincerely thank you for your support to our cause.

Without the support of donors we would not be able to do all the work we have been doing for sea turtles and their habitat, so masha masha danki. We hope that for the following year we can again count on your support. 

Together we can make the necessary change and we really do need action. We have a lot of exciting activities planned for the remainder of 2019 and we will do our best to protect sea turtles and their habitat to the best of our abilities, using research, conservation and education as the most important drivers.

Thank you again for your support in the last year. We could not have done what we did without you!

• Annual activity report 2018 (PDF)