Sea Turtle Conservation and Villa Montana Beach Resort - an alliance with Caribbean Conservation Corporation's Sea Turtle Adoption Program -- to save the turtles

The earth has been host to sea turtles for 150 million years.

Now we are losing them.

At Villa Montaña Beach Resort we are part of the same eco-system that is stressing the sea turtles to the point of extinction.

We see it as part of our job here at the juncture of the Atlantic and Caribbean to support the people who are bringing the turtles' plight, which could well be our own plight, to notice and to try to find solutions - both scientific and immediately practical.

All to save the turtles.

Sea Turtle Adoption at Caribbean Family Resort

When families come to Villa Montaña Beach Resort, we try to give each one a turtle adoption kit for one year. The family will be able to trace the turtle that they have "adopted", see by satellite tracking where it is right now, where it might be headed, learn about the ways of the sea turtle. The family will be contributing to a better understanding of how the turtle fits into our lives and acts as a guide to our own future as just another animal on a stressed planet.

Our Turtle Adoption Program is created and run by the Caribbean Conservation Corporation of Gainesville, FL, USA.

Our families receive an adoption program for one year - one year of support for the Caribbean Conservation program. After that initial year, it is our hope that the guest children and their parents will see value in continued support.

To achieve its mission, CCC uses research, habitat protection, public education, community outreach, networking and advocacy as its basic tools. These tools are applied in both international and domestic programs focusing on geographic areas that are globally important to sea turtle survival.

:: For an in-depth understanding of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation's mission of sea turtles and their survival: http://www.cccturtle.org

:: For an explanation as to how satellite tracking of sea turtles works: http://www.cccturtle.org/
satintro.htm

:: For a view of where each adopted sea turtle is in the sea right now: http://www.cccturtle.org/sat-leatherback.htm

:: For a live forum discussion that you can join in on: http://www.cccturtle.org/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi

:: For donating to support the sea turtle adoption program: http://www.cccturtle.org/
involved.htm

The following analyses and discussions are direct quotes from the Caribbean Conservation Corporation' website for sea turtle conservation and awareness: http://www.cccturtle.org

Sea Turtle Focus of Caribbean Conservation Corporation

CCC's geographic focus is the Wider Caribbean and Atlantic because of the region's unique importance to the world's remaining sea turtle populations. The colonies of green turtles, loggerheads, hawksbills and leatherbacks that nest at Tortuguero in Costa Rica, Chiriqui Beach in Panama, and in Florida are among the largest remaining in the Western Hemisphere. In response, CCC weights its efforts toward these critical nesting beaches.

The highly migratory nature of sea turtles dictates that CCC include the whole Caribbean basin within its geographic scope. Therefore, programs have been initiated in Bermuda, the Bahamas, and the eastern Caribbean because of the important roles these areas play in the life cycle of sea turtles.

:: For a live forum discussion that you can join in on: http://www.cccturtle.org/cgi-bin/
discus/discus.cgi
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Articles from CCC's website - providing more in depth information for our guests:

:: An Overview of Sea Turtles and Their Migration Patterns By Villa Montaña Beach Resort

:: General Behavior Patterns of Sea Turtles

:: Reproduction of Sea Turtles and the Vital Importance of free Access to Beaches of original Birth

:: Growth & Development of Sea Turtles

:: Status of the Sea Turtle Species

:: How We at Villa Montana and You at Home Can Help Our Sea Turtles to Survive

:: Major ecological effects of sea turtle extinction

:: What is Extinction?