Support Sea Turtle Conservation in El Salvador

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,

Links:

• Releasing
• Facebook Post

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!

Links:

• Sea turtle found by Manuel Herrera