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Pro Peninsula

Our beneficiary for the competition is Pro Peninsula, a conservation organization dedicated to empowering communities in Baja California, Mexico to protect and preserve their environment. Pro Peninsula is the coordinating body for the Grupo Tortuguero, or Sea Turtle Conservation Network, and through this program works to identify local marine conservation leaders and to support their conservation efforts on a local and regional level.

The Grupo Tortuguero is an integral part of the effort to protect the sea turtle population that ranges from the Baja coast throughout the Pacific Ocean. The Grupo Tortuguero monitors sea turtle populations and, through satellite tracking, plots the movement of individual turtles to nesting areas as far a field as Japan.

Since 1998, Underwater Images has been able to donate over $14,000 to Grupo Tortuguero’s scholarship programs. Almost a dozen Mexican fishermen have benefited from these scholarships to national and international sea turtle symposiums. They include Adan Hernandez, who has been nominated as Time magazine's conservationist of the year.

Without these scholarships, local conservationists are unable to attend important seminars like this. At a sea turtle seminar, they meet others like themselves, see the latest data on sea turtle declines, make connections with biologists and conservationists from around the world, and learn conservation techniques. They come back to their communities inspired to continue their work. Returned fishermen have been able to save hundreds of turtles and-more important-to begin to change local attitudes to support turtle conservation.

We urge you to join our efforts to support marine conservation and education.


For more information about Grupo Tortuguero and Pro Peninsula, please visit these sites:


The Grupo Tortuguero web page www.grupotortuguero.org
The Pro Peninsula web page www.propeninsula.org
The www.seaturtle.org   web page.
 

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