Project Sangalaki has been formed to protect the eggs laid on the island by green turtles. You can help by donating. Contents Volunteering Another way you can help sea turtles is to volunteer to help with beach monitoring programs. These require your time, but you get experience with fieldwork and the chance to see turtles nesting and hatching. You are usually required to pay at least part of the expenses, and the conditions are sometimes a bit primitive, but the opportunity to have close contact with the turtles is worth it.
Participants work with researchers to find, tag, and record data about the leatherbacks.
Track count surveys will also be conducted to help determine the extent to which the area is used for nesting. Tag data and tag return information will reveal the life cycle and migratory patterns of this largest and widest-ranging sea turtle species. CCC studies have solved many of the mysteries of green turtle reproductive ecology and behavior. Long-term tagging at Tortuguero facilitates monitoring of the nesting population to evaluate the survival status of the species. You will work with nesting turtles weighing up to 350 pounds and measuring 3 to 4 feet in length.