Beach Clean Up Day Needs Help!

WE NEED YOUR HELP! Currently, we have a big group of volunteers ready to clean up the litter on Manatee Bar Beach this weekend, the important beach where our hawksbills lay their eggs. But we’re short of the funds needed to get this massive job done! If you can help us out at all, please donate to Hawksbill Hope and the Beach Clean Up Day through Paypal to trimkus@marymount.edu.  There is a link to the right of this page!

Here’s a picture of beach litter taken by Sarah Gulick last year:

As you can see, this is a MASSIVE job.  Not only does the litter make nesting difficult and dangerous for the mother turtles, it makes it difficult and dangerous for the volunteers who patrol the beach for Hawksbill Hope’s research.  Here’s a photo of what a night patrol looks like to a turtle tracker via headlamp:

And worst of all, litter can mean life or death to hatchling turtles.

Please help us out if you can.  For donations of $50 or more, we’d love to send you a turtle pendant necklace from the artisans of Gales Point, Belize.  Each necklace is completely unique and hand-carved from coconut shell.