SEE Turtles Sustainable Travel Auction
To promote sustainable travel that supports sea turtles and coastal communities, SEE Turtles is announcing our second annual Sustainable Travel Auction. We work with leading tour operators and travel companies to encourage sustainable travel to coastal destinations around the world including Lindblad Expeditions, Natural Habitat Adventures, Pioneer Expeditions, Cuban Adventures, Global Basecamps, and EcoTeach. Funds raised from this auction will support SEE Turtles programs including our Too Rare To Wear program, which works with the tourism industry to combat the illegal tortoiseshell trade and our Sea Turtles & Plastic program, which helps coastal communities clean up and recycle plastic waste.
Highlights from the auction include:
A 10 day trip for 2 to the legendary Galapagos Islands on a chartered yacht with Natural Habitat Adventures
A week-long cabin for two on the National Geographic Quest cruise ship, visiting the Panama Canal and the beautiful coasts of Panama and Colombia, donated by Lindblad Adventures
An 8 day trip for 2 to the unique island of Cuba visiting the highlights including Havana and more, donated by Cuban Adventures
An 10 day sea kayaking exploration of Indonesia’s Komodo Islands for one, donated by Pioneer Expeditions
A 3 night stay at Punta Islita in Costa Rica that includes a visit to a sea turtle conservation project donated by Global Basecamps
A week-long Costa Rica sea turtle volunteer trip for one to work with giant leatherback turtles, donated by EcoTeach & SEE Turtles
The first sustainable travel auction in 2023 raised $13,000 for sea turtle conservation efforts. Those funds helped to support community projects in Kenya and Malaysia that are helping these destinations to clean and recycle thousand of pounds of plastic waste. In addition, the funds are being used to educate travelers about the illegal sale of tortoiseshell products happening in more than 10 countries around the world and to develop our ground-breaking SEE Shell App, which uses machine learning to allow travelers and others to identify these products.
Auction Donors
Global Basecamps