Directory

Sea Turtle Organizations Worldwide

A growing directory of NGOs, sanctuaries, and grassroots groups protecting turtles on every continent — filter by region to explore.

Loggerhead sea turtle hatchling (Photo: USFWS, public domain)
Latin America

COASTS — Costa Rican Alliance for Sea Turtle Conservation & Science

COASTS works on the frontline in Costa Rica, studying and protecting mating, nesting, and feeding sea turtles through a combination…

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Green sea turtle being released back to the sea (Photo: USGS, public domain)
Latin America

Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias

Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias is a civil association uniting fishermen, academics, volunteers, students, and community members around a shared…

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Researchers releasing a satellite-tagged green sea turtle (Photo: Andrew Crowder / USGS, public domain)
Latin America

LAST — Latin American Sea Turtles Association

LAST (Latin American Sea Turtles Association) envisions “a future where all inhabitants of the Costa Rican coasts, human and sea…

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Hawksbill sea turtle swimming over elkhorn coral, St. John, US Virgin Islands (Photo: Caroline Rogers / USGS, public domain)
Caribbean Latin America

MarAlliance

MarAlliance is a marine conservation organization researching and monitoring sea turtles alongside sharks, rays, and other marine megafauna across Central…

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Sea turtles being returned to the water (Photo: Jackie Guzy / USGS, public domain)
Latin America

Projeto TAMAR

Projeto TAMAR is Brazil’s national sea turtle conservation program, dedicated to building comprehensive scientific knowledge of marine turtle biology in…

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Sea turtle nest being surveyed on the beach (Photo: David Thompson / USGS, public domain)
Caribbean

Sea Turtle Conservancy

Founded in 1959 by pioneering sea turtle biologist Dr. Archie Carr, the Sea Turtle Conservancy (formerly the Caribbean Conservation Corporation)…

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Green sea turtle swimming (Photo: Matt McIntosh / NOAA, public domain)
Global

SEE Turtles

SEE Turtles protects sea turtles globally through direct funding, education, and experiential travel — with its flagship Billion Baby Turtles…

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Global

Turtle Island

Turtle Island is our featured partner organization — a nonprofit dedicated to protecting the world’s most endangered and overlooked turtle…

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Hawksbill sea turtle swimming over elkhorn coral, St. John, US Virgin Islands (Photo: Caroline Rogers / USGS, public domain)
Caribbean

WIDECAST — Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network

WIDECAST facilitates a region-wide capacity to recover and sustainably manage depleted sea turtle populations across the Wider Caribbean — balancing…

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