The four species reported in the Anzoatiguenses Coasts: Caguamo (Caretta caretta), Verde (Chelonia mydas), Carey (Eretmochelys imbricata) and Cardón (Dermochelys coriácea), are present this year on...
During the last week of June, La Tortuga Foundation with its RAO Anzoátegui Project, accompanied Fundación Empresas Polar in the celebration of the "Conservation Week", a permanent event of this organization, which seeks to provide children from the communities near its plant located in Barcelona, environmental recreational activities and thus forge the citizen of the future with more awareness and ecological sensitivity.
In May, the Anzoátegui Early Warning Network, RAO Anzoátegui, completed five years of investigative and educational work for the conservation and protection of sea turtles in the state of Anzoátegui.
Since April, RAO Anzoátegui has received reports of sea turtle strandings on the beaches of Boca de Uchire from different volunteers. Thanks to the actions of Civil Protection officials, locals, and tourists, we have been able to gather information on the presence of these reptiles, but without life.
For the RAO Anzoátegui team, March was an interesting month both on land and in the water. In response to an invitation from the State’s hotel area, the "Hotel Cristina Suites" offered its spaces to share with tourists and family members staying at the hotel, the life and environmental problems that sea turtles go through.
Last Monday, October 14, La Tortuga Foundation attended a meeting at the headquarters of the Ministry of People’s Power for the Environment with other organizations of the state of Anzoátegui that make up the State Environmental Education Collective, in order to join this work for the environment.
During the month of September, RAO Anzoátegui members responded to several calls reporting sea turtle hatchlings on Anzoátegui beaches.
During the last outing of the RAO Anzoátegui team, remains of abandoned fishing nets were found on the shores of the beaches. These plastics are silent killers because much marine fauna is trapped in them with no chance of survival.
For the members of RAO Anzoátegui, who monthly walk kilometers of beaches within the sea turtle study, Mochima National Park offers to every visitor or local the most spectacular and varied landscapes, only interrupted by the sight of large amounts of garbage and where disposable diapers are found more and more, thrown on the sands of the beaches of the state.
The children of UE Inés María de Potentini, located in the Tierra Adentro sector of Puerto La Cruz, received a visit from La Tortuga Foundation on July 15 to receive an educational talk about sea turtles.
