Save the Sea Turtles

Dear Friends and Supporters,

The InvestEGGator project has made some exciting steps since you donated to the program. First, we wrapped up our effforts to test the investEGGator under a range of conditions. 

• We were able to work with several local groups and researchers working in Costa Rica. To date, those partners have deployed about 150 eggs in sea turtle nests. Most of those were not poached, reflecting the higher levels of protection nests receive in Costa Rica. About 20% of the eggs have actually been poached, although sometimes the poachers noticed the eggs and left them discarded on the beaches. Of the ones that were taken, 5 have successfully transmitted their paths, sometimes showing long journeys of almost 200 km from beach to final destination. In several cases, poachers found the eggs and eventually turned them in to someone who returned them to the investigators who put them there, wondering what they were! 
• We have worked with a South American government to deploy an additional 30 eggs in a South American country (anonymous for now), and are in talks with three other locations around the world.
• Research carried out by our collaborator Helen Pheasey on the effectiveness of the InvestEGGator is now under review, and has been invited for a full submission to a top journal. 
• Our sea turtle rangers are set up to provide turtle monitoring training at two hotels, will enable us to protect up to 200 additional nests each year and could pave the way for us to deploy the investEGGator where our main programs exist 

We are so grateful to you for your generous support for the sea turtle program and look forward to providing you with more updates soon.

Warm Regards,

Sarah 

Paso Pacifico