Turtle Rescue and Information Centre on Boa Vista – A Milestone for Sea Turtle Conservation
On Boa Vista, we have been facing a new challenge for some time: more and more sea turtles ...
Training Camp 2025 – Ready to Protect Sea Turtles
The 2025 nesting season on Boa Vista (Cape Verde) has begun – and our team is ready! We ...
Meet Olivia – our conservation dog now working on Boa Vista
With their exceptional sense of smell, our conservation dogs Kelo and Karetta have been guarding the nesting beaches of ...
Remains of poached animals evaluated
In the past, our Cape Verdean team has repeatedly come across relics of killed loggerhead turtles on stretches ...
Successful nesting season on Boa Vista
A few weeks ago, we were able to celebrate the end of a successful nesting season for the ...
First preparations underway for Rescue and Information Centre on Boa Vista
As we already announced in our annual report, the establishment of a rescue and information centre for sea ...
Excessive tourism on the nesting beaches
Over the past few months, we have been following a development on the nesting beaches of the loggerhead ...
Why there could be much fewer sea turtles than previously assumed – and how this might affect our work, too
For us humans, sea turtles are still quite unknown creatures, to a large extent: Usually, they become visible only when ...
Financed by European taxpayers: Industrial fisheries kill countless sea birds and sea turtles
Industrial fishing vessels off the coasts of West Africa kill thousands of endangered marine animals every year. A representative of ...
“No stress!” – My Summer with Turtle Foundation
When the turtle babies hatch on the beach at night, Maya Visbeck is in her element. As a long-term volunteer ...