Save 60,000 Sea Turtles in El Salvador

A large part of our work involves including local resource users in sustainable environmental management practices, ensuring that our work is beneficial to all sectors of society and serves the communities that need the most support to improve their quality of life and contribute to the sustainability of coastal towns.

During this time, support has been generated for educational centers such as national schools, private schools, higher education such as universities, private companies, etc. We welcome you with the hope that you know a little about the importance of marine species for the survival of beings. . . humans on the planet. In some cases we go to schools to talk to students to get closer to them.

Our country has the great problem of having an overpopulation, which is why there is a lot of economic need, mainly to search for food, and that is why one of the greatest effects on awareness for the conservation of sea turtles is the use of their eggs as part of the diet of human communities,

We are currently working on bringing people from different parts of the country and people from other nationalities have also visited us, this with the aim of learning about our work for the conservation of sea turtles, in this process we take advantage of providing them with environmental education.

We are currently working on bringing people from different parts of the country and people from other nationalities have also visited us, this with the aim of learning about our work for the conservation of sea turtles, in this process we take advantage of providing them with environmental education, related to conservation. . . . . . of sea turtles. This has allowed us to improve the facilities of our nursery so that people can have more interpretation and better comfort, so that they provide the best possible care and our training is successful.

During this time we have continued to incubate sea turtle nests in our nursery, getting closer each time to the incubation goal with a total of 50,000 eggs in general, with 90% effectiveness in the birth of the hatchlings.

Something very interesting to show is people's acceptance of wanting to make changes in their personality to improve natural resources, who take away a good message and an enthusiasm for wanting to help improve our ecosystem, which is currently becoming so vulnerable due to the strong negative effects that the human race itself is causing them.

Work is also being done on the monitoring and marking of sea turtles, having very important data such as the travel route of the green turtles that have moved between El Salvador and Mexico (Oaxaca). This gives the opportunity to characterize sites of importance for sea turtles between these countries. Of course, this can be realized if we continue monitoring constantly.

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• environmental education with people from different sectors

During this time, our work has been extremely important since environmental education has been carried out, focused on the protection and conservation of natural resources, among them the issue of sea turtles, it is vital to talk about it, we have carried out 15 environmental education sessions with the company private and educational centers, talking about the great ecological value of sea turtles for marine ecosystems image 1, 2, 3

In the improvement, the infrastructure of the nursery has been worked on, having better conditions to carry out the adequate work. Signs have been placed that allow visitors to learn about sea turtles. Image 4 

A control is carried out in the management of the hatchery conditions, trying to have the adequate conditions in terms of temperature, humidity and other factors that influence the development of the egg.image 5 

With the support of the Ministry of the Environment of El Salvador (MARN), we carry out patrols to rescue sea turtles that have been hit on the beach shore, we take care of checking them, giving them general treatment and later delivering them to the MARN veterinary staff. To carry out this action we are accompanied by the technical support that we have managed to have thanks to the support that you provide us. Imagen 6, 7, 8 

Thanks to their collaboration, it has also been possible to support the community Civil Protection of Barra de Santiago, providing them with water storage backpacks to fight fires in forest areas, this in order to improve forest conditions that allow the maintenance of coastal marine ecosystems. Image 9

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• thanks from the beneficiaries of our turtle project