Project Report
| Feb 3, 2025
Thanks for a great year!
By Jose Argueta | Executive Director
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Releasing
As always it is a pleasure to share an update on our project. We are letting the hatchery dry up, so it will be sanitized and cleaned for the new hatching season.
Last year was great because of your generous support and the help of other organizations and friends who love sea turtle conservation. A summary of great results:
- 85,219 sea turtle eggs were incubated and managed at the hatchery. We succeeded in our goal last year and hope to do it in 2025.
- 79,312 hatchlings were released into the ocean, showing a good percentage of survival in the hatchery.
- 3 beach cleanup campaigns were implemented to keep the hatchery and the beach free of plastics that come from everywhere
- More than 3 public hatchling releases done with community and friends
- 3 training sessions with participants to talk about the project
For 2025 we will keep working to support the conservation of sea turtles and share more experiences.
Thanks, friends,
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Meeting
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Releasing
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Hatchlings
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Hatchery
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Beach cleanup
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Beach cleanup
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Beach cleanups
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Realeasing by babies
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Hatchling
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Hatchery
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Oct 5, 2024
We are getting some baby turtles!
By Jose Maria Argueta | Executive Director
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hatchery
This project is moving forward thanks to the generous contributions of many people. The participants and beneficiaries of the project have been doing the following activities:
- Cleaning up the beach to help the sea turtles lay eggs
- Building the hatchery to collect at least 70,000 eggs of sea turtle
- Collected more than 40,000 eggs to incubate in the hatchery
- Released about 1,500 hatchlings or baby turtles
- Collected information on sea turtle nesting sites
We have incubated more than 40,000 eggs in our hatchery. This is wonderful because we have good results to show and the ocean will have more turtles to balance its ecosystem.
The community of Isla de Méndez will get more visitors when more hatchlings are released. This will be an opportunity to improve the community's image and show others how a group of people can strengthen environmental and wildlife conservation to support the health of the oceans.
We are releasing hatchlings every day and continue to collect more eggs to protect them from predators and other threats. Any person or community is invited to come to release babies until December, which is the last time you have an opportunity to learn more about sea turtle conservation.
We keep in touch!
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building hatchery
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building hatchery
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collecting eggs
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turtle
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incubating eggs
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releasing babies
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hatchlings
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Jun 7, 2024
We are just starting!
By Amilcar Cruz | Project Coordinator
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Beach
We have started the project!
During this time we have been coordinating with the Association of Sea Turtle Conservation at Isla de Mendez to plan some activities.
The first activity was the beach cleanup, so the project participants cleaned the beach at Isla de Méndez, then, they participated in a training process and building the hatchery. The following are other activities that we will be carrying with the participants:
- Building the hatchery and monitoring booth
- Collecting sea turtle eggs
- Inbucating sea turtle eggs
- Educational activities at the hatchery
- Releasing sea turtle babies
- Supporting community tourism.
We have just started and you helped to start with the project. We are sure we will share more info about the plans.
Thanks
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Beach Cleanup
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