• C.A.N ASIA TOUR • SEA TURTLE SANCTUARY •

1000 YEARS OF LIFE FOR 1 €URO •
http://www.betterplace.org/projects/5319-sea-turtle-sanctuary
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THE SEA TURTLE SANCTUARY IN KOSGODA, SRI LANKA
• http://seaturtlesanctuary.com/ •
Sri Lanka is visited by five endangered species of sea turtles. Mr. Abbrew and his family incubate some 75,000 turtle eggs per year and care for adult turtles that have been hurt or are handicapped. Their model is simple, to pay local people for turtle eggs as an option to eating them. Payments for turtle eggs support about 60 families in the neighborhood. Funding comes from admission fees and donations from tourists. No government financial support is available but necessary regulatory approvals have been received.
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The math is simple:
For your donation of €1 the project will buy 15 Turtle Eggs. After around 50 days 15 baby turtles are born and stay in the hatchery for 2 days before they are released back into the ocean. This makes them stronger and improves their chance for survival from 1-2% to 20-25%.
So if 4 turtles survive and live for 250 years each ... that's 1000 years of life - and it might just save this endangered species from extinction.
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