HOW CAN WE HELP TO PROTECT SEA TURTLES?

• Respecting laws and agreements that have been created to conserve sea turtles.
• Supporting the establishment of protected areas in nesting sites and environmental education programs in the communities close to them.
• Avoiding artificial lights on nesting sites and regulating coastal development.
• Reducing the contamination of our planet’s oceans.
• Collaborating with scientific research on sea turtles.
• Not buying or consuming turtle eggs and meat, and not using articles made with turtle products.
• Sharing knowledge gathered in courses and workshops with others.
• Informing authorities of anyone who infringes laws protecting turtles.
• Practicing arts of fishing that diminish incidental capture and bycatch.
• Trying not to abandon nets in the sea, lending aid to injured turtles and freeing them when they are stranded in a net.