Saving Baby Turtles With JoySuds
SEE Turtles is thrilled to be partnering with JoySuds to help protect baby sea turtles with every purchase of their new line of Pure Joy products. With the support of JoySuds, SEE Turtles will help save more than a half million hatchlings at important turtle nesting beaches each year.
Nesting beaches supported by Pure joy to date
2023 Grants
Levera Beach, Grenada
Ocean Spirits is a Grenadian organization that has worked to protect nesting leatherbacks on this beach for more than a decade. Estimated hatchlings saved: 7,000
Jiquilisco Bay, El Salvador
ProCosta is a Salvadoran organization that works to protect several hawksbill nesting areas in the country. The hawksbills of the Eastern Pacific are among the world’s most endangered sea turtle populations. Estimated hatchlings saved: 10,000
2022 Grants
Colola Beach, Mexico
This program, run in collaboration between the local Nahua indigenous community and the University of Michoacan, is the most important nesting beach in the world for black turtles, a sub-species of green turtles that can be found in the Eastern Pacific ocean.
Estimated hatchlings saved: 375,000
Punta Pargos, Costa Rica
Sea Turtles Forever has worked to protect black turtles and olive ridleys nesting on this beach since 2002. They work with the local community to monitor the beach, protect the nests, and remove microplastic from the beach.
Estimated hatchlings saved: 1,000
Nancite & Naranjo Beaches, Costa Rica
Biologist Luis Fonseca and his team work in the remote Santa Rosa National Park on two important beaches for olive ridley and leatherback turtles.
Estimated hatchlings saved: 110,000
Palmarito Turtle Camp, Mexico
This organization protects a 21 km beach that is one of the most important for critically endangered Pacific leatherback turtles.
Estimated hatchlings saved: 3,000
Equipo Tora Carey, Costa Rica
ETC works to protect several nesting beaches on Costa Rica’s north Pacific coast. They protect primarily green and olive ridley turtles.
Estimated hatchlings saved: 700
Mayto Turtle Camp, Mexico
Mayto works to protect olive ridleys, greens, and leatherbacks nesting on Mexico’s Pacific coast. We provided funds to help rebuild their station after a recent hurricane.
Estimated hatchlings saved: 3,700
Soropta Beach, Panama
Sea Turtle Conservancy works to protect this important nesting beach for leatherback and hawksbill turtles along Panama’s northern Caribbean coast.
Estimated hatchlings saved: 4,000
Vida Marina, Puerto Rico
Vida Marina is part of the University of Puerto Rico that works to protect leatherback and hawksbill nesting beaches and restore coastal areas.
Estimated hatchlings saved: 6,000