Help Protect Endangered Sea Turtles in Curacao

Dear donor,

We are happy to announce the publication of our annual report of 2018. Although it came out a little later than we have hoped, we are very proud of the end result and all the activities that took place in 2018.

Many thanks to everybody involved with STCC in 2018, everybody involved with putting together this report and special thanks to Karina Vasiljeva to make the great layout of the report.

We hope you will enjoy reading it and we would like to sincerely thank you for your support to our cause.

Without the support of donors we would not be able to do all the work we have been doing for sea turtles and their habitat, so masha masha danki. We hope that for the following year we can again count on your support. 

Together we can make the necessary change and we really do need action. We have a lot of exciting activities planned for the remainder of 2019 and we will do our best to protect sea turtles and their habitat to the best of our abilities, using research, conservation and education as the most important drivers.

Thank you again for your support in the last year. We could not have done what we did without you!

• Annual activity report 2018 (PDF)
  

On May 23rd the art installation "Our plastic ocean" was officially opened in Sambil Mall. Minister Koeiman of the labor department opened the installation together with Jayden Booi, a young STCC volunteer that helped with the creation of the Turtle Phenix, that rises out of the plastic.

The Thurtle Phenix is one part of the installation that consists of 4 parts. The first part is a photo/illustration wall which shows beautiful pictures of the different species of sea turtles that are found around Curacao. Pictures and illustrations were donated for this purpose by Dawn Witherington, Kostas Papafitsoros and Gail Johnson. The second part is a plastic curtain made out of bottle caps. These curtains were made by no less then 70 children. Behind the curtain is an colorful waal painting made by Claire Hol. 

In the middle of the hallway there is a enclosement of 3m x 9m filled with blue and green plastic bottles, representing the ocean. In the ocean there are replica sea turtles and the Turtle Phenix.

The whole installation was created as a collaborative project by Sea Turtle Conservation Curacao and Green Phenix. The art installation aims to create more awareness about sea turtles and the threats of plastic pollution. 

More than 100 people contributed to the installation and a lot of people came to the opening. It will remain in Sambil for at least 3 months and in this time period there will be an awareness campaign help that helps to link plastic consumption to pollution and conservation. 

Links:

• Item on Dutch Jeugdjournaal
• Live stream of opening