Your help is crucial
Volunteer’s help is essential in order to achieve these goals.
Every year hundreds of volunteers contribute by helping us in the protection, conservation and research works of the natural resources of the island of Boa Vista.
MAIN
ACTIVITIES
- Daily turtle track and nest census in nesting beaches.
- Control and surveillance of the nesting beaches.
- Rescue of disoriented females.
- Protection of breeding females and their nests.
- Control and monitoring of beach productivity.
- Tagging and monitoring natural nests.
- Exhumation of natural nests.
- Analysis of egg and hatchling predation
and mortality rates.
- Improvement of the natural beach productivity through hatchery incubation programs.
The camps
Ervatão Camp
Active since 1998. Located on the southeast of the island, in the Reserva Natural das Tartarugas (RNT).
Covers the 7 most important kilometres for the nesting of Loggerhead turtles in all Cape Verde (75% of the nests).
Holds capacity for 30-35 people.
Porto Ferreira Camp
Active since 2009. Located on the east of Boa Vista, in the Parque Natural do Norte (PNN).
Covers 8 km of Loggerhead turtle nesting beaches.
Holds capacity for 20-25 people.
