Support Sea Turtle Conservation in El Salvador

Friends!

The beggining of this year was good to start thinking about the activities. We have taken some time to relax before the nesting season starts in our community. During this time, we have organized some beach cleanup campaings to reduce plastics that come from the ocean.

We coordinated with students from the University of El Salvador to collect trash and analyze its sources. This will allow us to understand how the consumption and factoring of food products generates plastics that contaminates the environment.

We want to thank you as alwas for your great support. We wanto to continue the next months with the following activities:

• Preparing the site for the hatchery
• Training new people about the management of the hatchery
• Training volunteers about collecting data of turtles
• Conserving sea turtle with our volunteers and friends

We apreciate any contribution to improve the life in our oceans and coastal communities.

Sincerely,

José Argueta

Executive Director

Dear friends,

We want to share good news about our project for the period of 2025! It was a wonderful year because we had the support of some volunteers in the community. Here is an update on the project:

• 80 volunteers of the Isla de Mendez community participated in all project activities to meet the conservation objectives
• 80 nests incubated
• 80,287 sea turtle eggs collected
• 79,537 juveniles released to the ocean
• 4 beach cleanup campaings were implemented to keep the nesting areas clean

Along with the releasing activities, we share with visitors why it is important to conserve sea turtles and other species that serve as a balance for the ocean.

For this year, our goal is to start a process of community tourism, which will allow tourists learn about the importance of sea turtle conservation while they support the project. Also, this initiative will support some local businesses in the community and other economic chains.

We thank all of you for your generous contribution to this project and hope to continue working this year to conserve more sea turtles and develop the community.

Sincerely,