Help to Release 5000 Sea Turtles in Guatemala!

Report Nesting Season 2022

In July, we inaugurated the 2022 sea turtle nesting and conservation season with DIPRONA, CONAP and AUMH.  To date, we have 6791 eggs buried / 72 nests . You have the option to sponsor a nest for 25$ for about 93 Turtle Eggs or for only 10$ you can sponsor a local guide to do nocturnal beach patrols.

With 50$ monthly you can sponsor two olive ridley sea turtle nests and your donation will get matched 100% by GlobalGiving. 

https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/help-to-release-30-000-sea-turtles-in-guatemala/?show=recurring

Thanks to the support of the USAID Guatemala Biodiversity Project, the New England Aquarium, SeeTurtles, WIDECAST and the Columbus Zoo, we continue our sea turtle population monitoring program on 7 index beaches along the Pacific coast.  This is important as it is the only long-term data set on sea turtles and other marine wildlife on the Pacific coast of Guatemala. 

Please see the latest Situational Analysis on ARCAS’s publications page: https://arcasguatemala.org/who-we-are/arcas-publications/  You can also find a recent article using this data published with colleagues at the Del Valle and Southern Norway Universities.     

Many thanks to our staff and collaborators who have spent many nights under wind and rain patrolling the beaches and burying nest.

Thanks very much for your generous support for our sea turtle conservation efforts, especially in these times of crisis. Please let me know if you have any questions, and please come and visit us.  The Hawaii Park is open to public, both for day visitors and volunteers!  And if you want to come and release hatchlings with your children, please contact us for availability.

We hopefully can count again on the support of all the amazing and generous donors through GlobalGiving.