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Adopt a Turtle for Mother’s Day

May 8, 2018 0

INSPIRED GIVING

SHOW THE MAMAS SOME LOVE

Every year, around Mother’s Day, the beaches of Akumal welcome the mama sea turtles to where they will spend hours digging their perfect nests and depositing their eggs, and then a few more hours covering them up before making their way back to sea.

It’s a laborious process, especially since each mama can do this several times in a six month span!

If you are looking to show your mama some extra love and share the love with our conservation efforts—adopting a turtle will be the perfect gift.

Your symbolic adoption helps support the conservation efforts of Centro Ecológico Akumal and the work we do to protect the nesting and hatching sea turtles in the area.

Whether you adopt a turtle family, a turtle nest or even a baby turtle, know that every bit helps our turtle team help the turtles.

With every adoption, you will receive a personalized certificate as a printable PDF attachment. Adopting before Friday, May 11th will give us the time to customize your certificate (and for you to print it).

Click the Donate button above and:

Enter the dollar amount for your adoption into the PayPal price field.
Please provide the name for each certificate and where you want it sent, in the PayPal “Note to Seller” field.

Note: Tax receipts will be issued.

This past season, in the four bays CEA monitors, there were over 1300 nests and 102,000+ hatchlings (the highest numbers we’ve ever seen)! Your adoption directly helps the Sea Turtle Program continue to monitor and patrol the beaches around Akumal to ensure the protection of these majestic creatures—from seasonal staff and required equipment to nesting stakes and supplies.

We thank you and on behalf of the mama turtles on the beaches in Akumal, we wish your mom a very happy Mother’s Day.