Gift Republic GR100023 Adopt It - Adopt a Sea Turtle

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Your donation will also help us provide essential funding for GPS tagging of our turtles and security cameras around our site. Marine turtles are amazing creatures, navigating across thousands of kilometres as they migrate between where they feed and where they nest. Although it has become illegal to catch and trade them in many parts of the world, green turtles and their eggs continue to be eaten, and face newer threats from fishing, coastal development, and climate change. Paved areas like roads and parking lots also create run-off that carries oils from cars into the water.

It’s a really wonderful thing to do and we were often rewarded by a rogue hatchling being uncovered and found to be perfectly healthy! When you adopt a turtle with WWF you can help to protect hawksbill, leatherback, loggerhead, flatback, olive ridley, Kemp’s ridley and green turtles from danger. of your pledge is used to purchase eggs from the license holders – LTTW takes no administration, management or any other type of fee from this programme.We will send you updates on the development of your nest and let you know exactly when we expect your hatchlings to emerge and head off into the ocean. Adopting a turtle is one of the most meaningful ways that you can help support the work of Projeto Biodiversidade. You will receive updates of your adopted turtle to let you know when and how often we have encountered it nesting and/or feeding in the area. This is the most dangerous time of a sea turtle’s life and nine out of ten new turtles are killed by predators.

As adults, green turtles are mainly herbivores and are known to play an important role as “grazers” in seagrass ecosystems. By adopting a turtle, you’re helping to protect endangered loggerhead turtles and their nesting sites on beaches, increase hatchling survival rates and raise awareness in tourism destinations about the importance of protecting the marine turtle population. By adopting a turtle, you will be helping WWF create and expand marine protected areas so this doesn’t happen. When you choose a symbolic animal adoption, you generously support WWF’s global conservation efforts.The US Postal Service™ is temporarily suspending international mail acceptance for certain destinations due to impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic and other unrelated service disruptions.

Aggressive fishing practices, poaching for turtle shells and pollution (which turtle’s mistake for food) all contribute to the dwindling turtle population. The most iconic of the sea turtles, the green turtle also has the most numerous and widely dispersed nesting sites of the seven species. This exciting pack includes easy-to-follow instructions - simply register online or by post to adopt a turtle and receive a supporter certificate. By working with local NGOs and beachfront tourism businesses, it also creates turtle friendly beaches and engages tourists by teaching them about turtles and how to protect them.

Every year over 250,000 marine turtles drown by becoming entangled in fishing lines and nets that choke the world's oceans. Your adoption will assist People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), a registered animal conservation charity. These programs are helping to save the turtles by educating government about land development issues that affect nesting and feeding grounds.