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By Brad Nahill, President, SEE Turtles
SEE Turtles is thrilled to resume our lengthy partnership with Natural Habitat Adventures. Since our launch in 2008, Nat Hab has supported our sustainable journey initiatives tremendously, beginning with collaborating on providing journeys to analysis sea turtles in Baja California Sur, Mexico, with our companions at Red Travel Mexico. Nat Hab has additionally participated in our Too Rare To Wear marketing campaign to finish the commerce in tortoiseshell merchandise. By changing into certainly one of SEE Turtles’ first Gold Sponsors of our new Sustainable Travel Sponsorship program, Nat Hab is supporting our efforts to scale back plastic waste in sea turtle habitats around the globe, encouraging folks to journey with out creating plastic waste and persevering with assist for the Too Rare To Wear marketing campaign.
© Gilby Alvarez
Plastic air pollution is an enormous and rising drawback for sea turtles and different ocean wildlife, coastal communities and vacationer locations. It is estimated that greater than 5 trillion items of plastic are within the ocean, impacting marine life and the fish folks eat. Plastic impacts sea turtles at each stage of the life cycle, entangling them within the water and on land, contaminating seashores and impacting turtle nests and hatchlings. Floating plastic is usually confused with certainly one of sea turtle’s major meals, jellyfish.
© Juan Ma Gonzalez
Responsible vacationers can assist by taking easy steps to scale back plastic waste. The simplest way is to convey alongside a reusable water bottle now that many airports and lodges have filtered water to refill. Travelers may take part in seaside cleanups when visiting coasts (or simply take a couple of minutes to do your personal cleanup). Other methods to assist embody consuming recent meals as an alternative of packaged snacks and bringing your personal toiletries to keep away from utilizing packaged cleaning soap and different objects. Our Travelers Against Plastic web site has extra suggestions for touring plastic-free.
© Hal Brindley
Travelers may assist finish the tortoiseshell commerce when touring. Travelers are the most important marketplace for merchandise comprised of the shell of the critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle and are sometimes unaware that the merchandise they buy are tortoiseshell. When touring to a spot the place these merchandise could also be offered, together with Latin America, the Caribbean and Asia, you should utilize our new SEE Shell App, which might determine these merchandise with a photograph taken out of your cellphone. We even have a helpful information to discover ways to determine these merchandise and a pledge to keep away from turtle merchandise that vacationers can signal.
© Gilby Alvarez
Natural Habitat Adventures is a crucial accomplice in serving to to finish the demand for wildlife merchandise within the journey business. SEE Turtles and Nat Hab collaborate with the Wildlife Trafficking Alliance, which is working to teach the journey business about this commerce and the best way to cut back it. We respect Nat Hab’s super assist for wildlife conservation in locations around the globe by its partnerships with World Wildlife Fund, SEE Turtles and different conservation organizations.
© Juan Ma Gonzalez
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