Cleaning Turtle Habitats Around the World with Our Sponsor Dots.Eco
We’re excited to be working with Dots.Eco, a company that offers environmental incentives for games and other apps. Through our collaboration, Dots.Eco is helping to fund cleanup of an estimated 350,000 lbs of plastic waste from sea turtle nesting beaches and foraging areas in seven countries in coordination with eight of our Sea Turtles & Plastic partners! Learn more about our collaboration with Dots.Eco here.
The funding will support the following efforts:
Paso Pacifico
Paso Pacifico works with communities and local organizations to clean plastic from turtle nesting beaches along the country’s Pacific coast.
Location: Nicaragua
Total estimated plastic collected: 25,000 lbs
Photo: Paso Pacifico
Karumbe
Karumbe is a community-based project that is working with Plastic Free Sea Turtles to reduce plastic pollution in the bay at the mouth of the Rio de la Plata, one of the worst areas for sea turtles consuming plastic in the world.
Location: Uruguay
Total estimated plastic collected: 50,000 lbs
Our World, Our Sea
Beach clean ups will be done along twelve community beaches and three fish landing sites. They also perform sensitization in local communities and schools to increase awareness on the need for sea turtle conservation.
Location: Ghana
Total estimated plastic collected: 56,000 lbs
Latin American Sea Turtles (LAST)
LAST works to protect sea turtles at projects on both of Costa RIca’s coasts. These funds will help conduct monthly cleanups at their project sites on the Osa Peninsula, Pacuare Beach, and Moin.
Location: Costa Rica
Total estimated plastic collected: 125,000 lbs
Photo: Latin American Sea Turtles
Palawan Biodiversity Conservation Advocates
Palawan Biodiversity organizes one clean-up a month in different barangays or villages in Puerto Princesa City.
Location: Philippines
Total estimated plastic collected: 21,000 lbs
COBEC
The Community empowerment and outreach project that seeks to protect and conserve sea turtles and their habitat in Marereni seascape, has a component on ocean plastic waste collection and recycling. More than 30 locals have benefited directly whereas over 300 individuals indirectly from the project in terms of monies that come from the recycled artifacts.
Location: Kenya
Total estimated plastic collected: 22,000 lbs
Photo: COBEC
Turtle Love
Turtle Love runs a community-based conservation project working to protect sea turtles nesting at Playa Tres, the 6-km stretch of beach immediately south of Tortuguero National Park. Tortuguero National Park.
Location: Costa Rica
Total estimated plastic collected: 30,000 lbs
Bahari Hai
In 2021 a group of community members came together with a common desire to make a difference in their own environment and to do so with an organization built upon a solid foundation of good governance and strong leadership. The target area is Kanani area (Watamu to Malindi), in the north coast of Kenya. This area was chosen because this section of coastline which accumulates a lot of waste due to the Kuzi monsoon.
Location: Kenya
Total estimated plastic collected: 23,000 lbs