Ways to help:

Adopt a Sea Turtle Nest

ADOPT A NEST FOR YOU OR YOUR LOVED ONE: ONLY US$ 30

What You Receive: 

• Personalized Certificate of Adoption

• Placement of Wooden Sign/Plaque in Hatchery with Your Name or of Loved One

• Photo/Video of your Nest’s Liberation into the Pacific ocean

With your precious donation to Adopt a Nest, you will be helping to provide money that the Punta Banco Sea Turtle Conservation Project needs annually to sustain its operation. 

The Punta Banco Sea Turtle Conservation Project conserves Olive Ridley, Green & Hawksbill Sea Turtles that are in danger of extinction.

The Conservation Project originally started in 1996 and since 2015 has a strong socioeconomic impact on the small community, as the project pays for the ecological services by its volunteers. The triad „employment-education-conservation“ is a success story! 

The project consists of 50 passionate local volunteers. All continously trained by a biologist. They patrol the dedicated 10km beach zone every night in the nesting season, June-January, to find sea turtle nests and carefully relocate them to the three dedicated hatcheries. After 45-60 days the baby turtles hatch and are released into the Pacific ocean in a safe environment. 

In the past past 6 years the project has released more than 250.000 sea turtle hatchlings. 

How does it work?

1. Download, print and fill out the Adoption Form

2. Please scan or take a photo of the Adoption Form and send it to puntabancoambiental@gmail.com

3. Make your payment below through Paypal (Click on “Donate Today” Box)

4. We’ll see your payment and match it to your Adoption Form(s)

5. We’ll send you a personalized “Certificate of Adoption” by email

6. We’ll paint a wooden sign/plaque with the given name & place it in the hatchery

7. We’ll take a photo/video of your nest’s liberation and send it to you

Make a Donation

Any amount is extremely helpful and goes directly to our cause here in Punta Banco!