

Turtles
Turtle research and conservation
Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society Marine Project
Sri Lanka
Based in Kalpitiya in Northwest Sri Lanka, SLWCS's Marine Project addresses the conservation issues affecting Sri Lanka’s marine wildlife and is also providing opportunities for ecotourism and alternative livelihoods to promote sustainable development in the area. Their aim is to collect information about the current state of the area, including sea turtle, shark, dugong and pink dolphin conservation via nesting surveys, monitoring programmes, in-situ hatching projects, as well as educational workshops, beach clean-ups, mangrove planting, and waste management schemes. They also have an office in Nutley, New Jersey in the USA.
St Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network
St Kitts and Nevis
SKSTMN is a community based non-profit organization founded which monitors nesting sea turtle populations and acts as an advocate for the strengthening of sea turtle protection laws. Their leatherback monitoring efforts are concentrated on the 2 primary leatherback nesting beaches, with surveys and tagging. Hawksbill and green efforts are concentrated on the main nesting sites and foraging hawksbills and greens are being tagged offshore. The data gathered is being used to promote conservation in order to improve laws and change long-standing attitudes regarding the importance of sea turtles not only to the island's ecosystem but economy
St Lucia National Trust
St Lucia
The longest serving environmental and heritage membership organisation on the island, SLNT has a legal mandate to conserve both the natural and cultural heritage of Saint Lucia. Amongst the many programmes of SLNT undertakes in support of this objective are several to do with the marine environment, including sea turtle monitoring, ecosystems assessments such as that of Pigeon Island’s marine ecosystems (including coral reefs and seagrass meadows) and a mangrove forest assessment on Ma Kote.
State of the World's Sea Turtles
USA
SWOT is a partnership among Oceanic Society, the IUCN-SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group, Duke University's OBIS-SEAMAP, and a growing international network of institutions and individuals. This SWOT Team 'works to compile and publish global sea turtle data that support conservation and management efforts at the international, national, and local scales. These data reside within the SWOT database', a remarkable source of information on the biogeography of turtles worldwide which is publicly available (refer to their website).
SubMON
Spain
Submon aims to conserve marine biodiversity and to achieve the sustainable use of the marine environment by promoting a change in the relationship between society and the sea, through on-site actions and using and transmitting knowledge. The organization develops its own projects, mainly directed towards the conservation, the study and awareness of the marine environment, and always with a clear social and sustainable development character.This includes is a strong programme for schools and on ocean literacy. Their many and extensive projects include research and protection of whales, dolphins, sea turtles, molluscs, seagrass meadows, amongst others. An influential body, their expertise is widely sought after internationally.
Takata Experience
Mexico
Takata Experience is a diving operator with a sea turtle conservation programme, The Takata Turtle Conservation Program, which is the result of a collaboration with local projects and people who protect sea turtles (Proyecto Aak Mahahual, and Roberto Herrera from Colegio de la Frontera Sur). The programme focuses on monitoring the local turtle population, protection of nesting sites and educating about turtles and their environments.
Tambor Bay Turtles
Costa Rica
TBT protects the local sea turtle population through education and intervention of nest poaching. In line with its mission – to protect the remaining sea turtles and grow the population – TBT have established a sea turtle egg hatchery. By taking the eggs from the nests on the beaches and hatching them in a hatchery, TBT is able to increase the initial survival rate of the eggs dramatically, from less than 10 percent to over 80 percent. Ecotourism is part of their strategy, involving volunteers in the conservation process.
Te mana o te moana
French Polynesia
Te mana o te moana acts for the protection of the Polynesian marine environment and more specifically sea turtles through actions of discovery, education and protection. Their sea turtle care center has treated more than 580 turtles in its 18 years of existence, and can be visited by the public. For 15 years they have operated a continuous green sea turtle nesting monitoring programme on Tetiaroa atoll. In 2010, Te Mana o te moana created a project to increase awareness of sustainable tourism for tourism operators, reminding them of the relevant regulation and the rules of good conduct that they should follow.
The Leatherback Trust
Costa Rica
The Leatherback Trust (TLT) is dedicated to saving the leatherback sea turtle. TLT’s mission is to promote the conservation of leatherbacks and other turtles at risk of extinction. They are involved in worldwide research and conservation of sea turtles as well as the education of local communities and policy makers. Their work includes protection of the nesting beaches at Las Baulas National Marine Park which hosts, among many other natural and cultural resources, the most important leatherback sea turtle nesting beaches in the entire Pacific Ocean.
The Turtle Hospital
USA
The Turtle Hospital on Marathon is a fully functioning veterinary hospital for sick and injured sea turtles. They rescue, rehabilitate, and release sea turtles in the Florida Keys. In addition, they aim to educate the public through outreach events and local schools, they conduct and assist with research aiding to sea turtles, and work toward legislation making the beaches and water safe and clean.
Tortugas de Pacuare
Costa Rica
The main mission at Tortugas de Pacuare is to protect endangered sea turtles such as the Leatherback sea turtle, Hawksbill sea turtle and the Green sea turtle, with the support of the local community and of international volunteers. By working with sea turtles and communal and environmental education programs, they educate people on the importance of caring about and protecting the local ecosystem in which turtles play an important role. They are active in Pacuare in the Caribbean site, Matapalo (Quepos) and Isla damas (Quepos) in the Pacific site, protecting sea turtles including the some of the most threatened species which are in serious danger of extinction.