With Your Help the Sea Turtle Camp can Become Stronger
Fund raising for the Camp is done entirely by volunteers and has the exclusive purpose of aiding the Platanitos Sea Turtle Conservation Camp at Playa Las Tortugas to have a more positive impact on our environment.
With your help we will see the Turtle Camp become strong enough to protect the surrounding natural resources and create a reserve that will attract more volunteers, teaching staff, and scientists along with healthy sustainable ecotourism.
The donations we collect are spent on hard costs of the Camp and not for paying staff or administration, except for the cost of a seasonal volunteer coordinator. Every donation makes a difference. Please help the Turtle Camp by making a donation.
Make a Donation Today Via Credit Card
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Donations by Check or Money Order
You can also send donations via check or money order to one of these addresses:
“PLATANITOS SEA TURTLE CAMP”
c/o ROBERT HANCOCK, SUITE 210
BLVD. FCO. MEDINA ASECENCIO 2180, LOCAL 7, NO. 210
PUERTO VALLARTA, JALISCO, C.P. 43819 MEXICO
or
ROBERT HANCOCK
PLAYA LAS TORTUGAS
827 UNION PACIFIC, #78-210
LAREDO, TX 78045-9452
Please make checks or money orders payable to “ROBERT HANCOCK”. These funds go 100% for hard costs of operating the Camp. Thanks again for your help.
You can contact Robert directly to arrange to visit the Turtle Camp personally or discuss donations.
The Sea Turtle Call for Help
[written by Jan Walbrecker, Volunteer]
The Pacific. Home to hundreds of thousands of different animals, and the home of us, the big turtles. We, the turtle-mothers, have brought to life our babies on the same special beaches for untold generations. So we travel a long way to find those rare places, often thousands of miles from our feeding grounds. One of our beaches is in the State of Nayarit, Mexico.
There we arrive crawling with the utmost of the effort up the sand with our flippers. Just we, the mother turtles, ever leave the water once we enter it after hatching. It is only through incredibly exhausting work that we dig our nests to place our eggs in, while exposing ourselves to the many dangers of the open beach. But that is just the beginning of the dangers for our babies. There are plenty of them. Four-legged animals very much like our eggs for dinner, but they are not the biggest problem. In fact it is the humans. Many of them walk on the beach at night to find our nests and steal our babies to sell them at markets. As there are not many of us, our species is doomed to not survive very long without help.
But luckily now there is a small organization of humans who makes its task to preserve our race. This organization consists of just a handful of dedicated men and women strengthened by volunteers who patrol the beach the whole night to guard our nests and turn the thieves away. They collect our eggs and put them in their hatchery. But they have not enough resources to buy the things they need to patrol the many miles of our beach effectively and in consequence still many of our babies perish. So we need the help of other humans who are interested in nature and the environment who can support this small organization so that they can help us bring to life our babies. Please help us.
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