About SEE Turtles

SEE Turtles connects people with sea turtles in meaningful, personal, and memorable ways. We help the sea turtle community connect, grow, and thrive by supporting community-based conservation efforts. Our programs provide funding, resources, and tools to protect endangered sea turtle species in the Global South.

SEE Turtles Programs

Our programs provide funding, resources, and tools to protect endangered sea turtle species in the Global South. These programs support local efforts worldwide to protect turtle nesting beaches, fight the illegal turtle trade, clean up plastic waste, and educate the public.

Billion Baby Turtles

One of the top threats to sea turtles is illegal collection of their eggs. But there is hope, lots of it!

We launched Billion Baby Turtles in 2013 to fund community-based organizations to pay local staff to patrol the beaches and move the eggs to safe places to be released when born. We have already saved more than 10 million hatchlings and your brand can save a hatchling for just 10 cents on average.

Sea Turtles & Plastic

If there is a poster species for the worldwide epidemic of plastic pollution, it’s sea turtles. The mothers swim through islands of plastic on their migrations and crawl through plastic to find their spots to nest on beaches. SEE Turtles believes the long-term solution is ending single use plastic.

We advocate for reducing plastic use while searching for ways to help get this waste out of sea turtle habitat, in ways that support conservation efforts and local communities and reusing this waste into useful products. 25 cents cleans up 1 lb of plastic or 4 lbs for every $1 donated.

Sea Turtle Week

Sea Turtle Week is a unique celebration of these animals and the people who work to support them. We partner with more than 100 organizations to reach millions of people each year. Sea Turtle Week includes contests, a global beach cleanup, a video series, & much more.