Help Protect Endangered Sea Turtles in Curacao

While sea turtle conservation is our primary focus, Sea Turtle Conservation Curacao (STCC) also regularly joins and supports beach cleanups on Curaçao. Our volunteers always pick up trash and plastic when possible, as this pollution can pose a serious threat to sea turtles. In the last weeks STCC organized/participated in the following cleanup activities:

British Royal navy
Fifty British sailors from the HMS Dauntless volunteered with STCC during a logistics stop on the Dutch island, helping clear more than 200kg of ocean plastic from a nesting beach and carrying out medical checks on the turtle population.

Curacao Clean Up

In the lead-up to the international cleanup day, World CleanUp Day, which takes place on Saturday, September 16, a cleanup took place on Klein Curaçao the weekend of September 9-10. For two days, a team of volunteers worked hard to remove the washed-up plastic, wood, and sargassum from the north side of the uninhabited island. These materials form obstacles on the beach for sea turtles that lay their eggs there, and in particular for their babies, who are unable to reach the sea as a result. The charter organizations Mermaid and Miss Ann sponsored the trip to and from Klein Curacao.

Also for World Cleanup Day, September 16, STCC participated in a cleanup initiated by Curacao Clean Up. Together with Curacao Clean Up, Rotary Club Willemstad, Limpi and Stichting Uniek Curacao (the organisation managing this bay) a lot of trash was picked up at Ascension bay. Many turtles live in this bay and unfortunately a lot of trash and plastic washes ashore here. It is great to see the difference between the before and after photos.

Links:

• Video of the activities of the British Royal navy on Curacao
• Facebook Curacao Clean Up
• Website World Cleanup Day Curacao