Sentences with phrase «wwf turtle conservation»

The study concluded that «the pet trade is a severe threat to turtle conservation and that law enforcement needs to increase.»

So far this year we have volunteers scheduled for spay / neuter in Mexico, sea turtle conservation in Guatemala, and wildlife rescue in Ecuador, and it's only spring!

He's also launching a website, TurtleTalks.org, and developing a program to match schools near turtle nesting sites with schools in the U.S. to encourage educational exchange and support for turtle conservation efforts.

Zander has interned at SEE Turtles and plans to promote turtle conservation in the U.S. and the Caribbean by expanding the content and reach of his turtle activity book and organizing educational campaigns for students.

There's a Mexican folk art museum, a marine turtle conservation sanctuary, an island with jaguars, a manatee lagoon, a butterfly pavilion and a coral reef aquarium, among other attractions.

Travelling to our remote coastal forest camp in Costa Rica, you'll participate (in season) in hands - on turtle conservation, collecting eggs and patrolling beaches.

Donations towards turtle conservation projects are always welcome and can be made on the islands.

In Gili Trawangan, the residents have set up a turtle conservation project.

Volunteers are encouraged to come join in on the fun to help create awareness in the various turtle conservation projects that they have going on.

Twice a year the volunteers monitoring the turtle conservation project release the hatchlings that are sea - ready into the, warm waters off the eastern coast of the island.

Experience a Mexico vacation with the confidence that your vacation is making a difference through Sandos environmental policy, or sea turtle conservation efforts.

The festival is a free event featuring art and cultural activities while showcasing sea turtle conservation activities.

The minimum stay is one week at a cost of GBP600 for snorkellers focusing on turtle conservation, or GBP650 for advanced divers, where the focus is more on the reef.

Famed for its reliable surf break and turtle conservation programme, Ujung Genteng sees few foreigners, but there is no shortage of reasonable accommodation to choose from.

From working with children and young people, to teaching English and turtle conservation, Costa Rica has an array of ways in which you can get involved in ethical volunteering abroad.

The park is home to a butterfly pavilion, a coral reef aquarium, a wildlife breeding farm specializing in the conservation of birds like macaws, parrots, flamingos, and toucans, an orchid greenhouse, a mushroom farm, a sea turtle conservation center and nursery, and mammal habitats for jaguars, spider - monkeys, deer, manatees, dolphins, and tapirs.

Through this exciting sea turtle conservation project, volunteers have the opportunity to nurse sea turtles back to health while studying and exploring the captivating local culture and environment of the Osa Peninsula.

Visit the turtle farm «Tortugranja,» located on Calle Zac Bajo near Playa Paraiso, where you can see various turtle species from the area and learn about sea turtle conservation efforts.

Bali Turtle Islands Tour tour is an exciting Bali Water Sports Tour package to enjoy visiting a small island covered by white sand with turtle conservation located in Tanjung Benoa, South part of Bali.

Kids learn about the turtle conservation program from May through October at our destination hotel in Mexico.

If you do get the chance to go, one of the locals, DarJohn, who works at Lozmen Reza runs a WWF turtle conservation project.

In my second year of uni, I went to Costa Rica as a part of a leatherback turtle conservation group.

A.J. offered to put Travis in contact with Wallace J. Nichols (who actually just goes by his middle initial) because they had worked together in the even smaller world of turtle conservation.

But there's a hospital; a number of excellent restaurants including a gourmet organic bistro; a fancy polo club where you can enjoy mimosas and watch a game over brunch; a community arts centre that received equipment and training from the Cirque de Soleil whose founder has a house here; a turtle conservation project; music festivals during the high season; ibogaine clinics that treat drug addicts with a African plant medicine; a skate park; an excellent multi-lingual folky band that plays every week at a bar serving both excellent pizza and gourmet teas; and the town attracts all sorts of creative, interesting people — surfers, dancers, writers, artists, musicians, yoga teachers, hippies.

I also wish to volunteer in coral, whale shark and turtle conservation efforts, to name a few.»

WHY IS TURTLE CONSERVATION IMPORTANT?

The Gili Islands are marked as an important area for marine turtle conservation.

1 Pawikan Nesting Sanctuary Ever since Danilo Dequina helped organized the sanctuary way back in 2003, the place has been an important partner in marine turtle conservation with the beaches of Maitum known nesting grounds to five species: olive ridley, loggerhead, hawksbill, green turtle and leatherback, which was last seen a decade ago.

Luckily one of the guys was working on a turtle conservation group, so we went to Cayenne beach looking for turtles.

Your tour begins with a visit to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center where you will view exhibits on sea turtle conservation, rehabilitation, and their amazing journey of life.

It is a sea turtle conservation initiated by the resort aiming to protect sea turtle eggs, increase hatching rates, increase their chance of surviving, and enabling them to strengthen before releasing them into the sea.

We opted to meet up at Kuta Beach (turtle conservation center) one of the 3 designated rally points and were stoked to see at least another 30 locals had given up their Saturday morning to join in the campaign agaist rubbish here in Bali.

Travel to a beautiful seaside village in Guatemala and assist with turtle conservation!

Visit the world's largest turtle research center (April to October), watch the Mon Repos turtle conservation talk (November to March), or spot humpback whales (June to November).

For more on the film project and turtle conservation, read the students» blog or follow the project on Twitter via @pacebaja.

My Pace University filmmaking students saw this same dynamic when we made our 2013 film about sea turtle conservation efforts in a fishing town on the Pacific side of Mexico's Baja peninsula.

The documentary chronicles how communities that once depended on sea turtle poaching and other activities depleting the region's rich natural resources are now testing a new economic model, one built around fishing with turtle conservation in mind and tourism focused on the area's extraordinary marine life.

The latest reports, from a coalition of turtle conservation groups and the Katala Foundation in Palawan, along with the anti-trafficking group Traffic, show how this has been playing out in a mass roundup and trafficking operation, with the turtles secreted by Chinese merchants in shipments of rattan bound for Hong Kong, where the turtles end up sold both as prized pets and a culinary delicacy.

In Turkey, the local chapter of WWF, one of the organizations that helped get nesting sites protected in the first place, is leading its own turtle conservation efforts at Akyatan lagoon, an important green - turtle nesting beach that is suffering the effects of pollution.

It also runs a turtle conservation project that removes delicate eggs from the beach and places them in a protected area for safe hatching.

This was made possible by the work of the Conservancy, the government establishing Tortuguero National Park and the community embracing turtle conservation as a more sustainable local economy.

And finally I have been encountering a lot of greenies who respond to issues like sea turtle conservation with a shrug and «But until we tackle climate change anything we do to save sea turtles is a waste because climate change will just kill them all off anyway.»

The Center For Biological Diversity and Sea Turtle Restoration Project have petitioned the United States government to impose trade sanctions on Mexico for failing to abide by international sea turtle conservation agreements.

Not exact matches

New research from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides valuable insight into the navigation and nesting behaviors of loggerhead sea turtles that could inform future conservation efforts.

Click here to learn more about our involvement in Blanding's turtle and Baltimore Checkerspot conservation.

Wellfleet Bay conducts conservation science research and protects endangered, threatened, and at risk wildlife, including sea turtles, diamondback terrapins, coastal waterbirds, and Atlantic horseshoe crabs throughout the Outer Cape, and protects rare and iconic Cape Cod habitats on its 1,100 acre Sanctuary.

He oversees conservation and recovery programs for endangered and threatened marine mammal and sea turtle species in New England and the...

To protect the turtles, NOAA Fisheries created the Pacific Loggerhead Conservation Area off the coast of Southern California.

A 20 - year assessment of Nicaragua's legal, artisanal green sea turtle fishery by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Florida has uncovered a stark reality: greatly reduced overall catch rates of turtles in what may have become an unsustainable take.

Uncontrolled development along the Pacific coast of Mexico had exactly this effect, says George Balazs, deputy director of the World Conservation Union's marine turtle specialist group.