Save the Sea Turtles

Dear Friend,

We are endlessly thankful for your support as we continue to aid the conservation of sea turtles around the world. Through the investEGGator project, you are making crime-stopping technology available to international conservation partners. Because of your donations, you’ve helped us create solutions to further prevent the poaching of endangered species. Your support is enabling the protection of nesting sea turtles. Here are some of the wonderful developments we’ve made thanks to your generous donations:

• In a continuation of our efforts to combat the trafficking of sea turtle eggs, we’ve partnered with an NGO to deploy a batch of our investEGGator decoy eggs in the Caribbean. The tracking data that these decoy eggs generate will help conservationists map the sea turtle egg trafficking routes. Sea turtle egg trade and consumption has continued throughout the pandemic and remains a major threat. Thanks to your support, conservationists around the world are employing our technology in the fight against sea turtle trafficking.

• The investEGGator continues to draw interest due to its innovative tech. We were recently interviewed for the CBS television show Innovation Nation about our efforts to save the sea turtles, including the innovative way that we have employed 3D printing and GPS/GSM tracking devices to create the investEGGator eggs. The episode is set to premiere in the fall of this year. 

• Your support has helped to expand nesting sea turtle protection to additional beaches. Paso Pacifico sea turtle rangers carried out a training workshop at a hotel resort in Tola, Nicaragua in preparation for nesting season. As part of the workshop, our rangers were advised on how to build a turtle nursery structure to aid the sea turtles.

• Though COVID-19 has led to an increase in poaching pressure, our rangers have continued working to ensure that the hatching process safely runs its course and that sea turtles are protected. During the past six months, we have protected and released over 500 sea turtle hatchlings, primarily green sea turtles.

• The eastern Pacific leatherback turtle is critically endangered. Without a major change in course, it will likely disappear by 2050. You made it possible for us to attend a multi-day planning workshop with experts across Latin America to consider emergency measures like rearing juvenile turtles in captivity. Everyone involved vowed to try to save this incredible marine turtle.  

• This week, 31 children participated in a field trip to the beach where they learned about sea turtle conservation, a trip that proved to be fruitful in ways unprecedented. Many of these kids, being from the inlands, had never been to the beach or seen sea turtles before. Such experiences build up the next generation and help the children value sea turtles and their ocean home.

Thanks again for your incredible support and we hope you have a beautiful July!

Sincerely,

Sarah and the Paso Pacifico team!