Across Eastern North America
Community Leadership is Helping to Save Turtles
Setting standards of research, care, and communications
Collaborating to integrate data, support analyses, and find solutions
A unified approach to gain respect for conservation, raise awareness, and build capacity
Do you want to be a Turtle Guardians chapter?
Turtle Guardians is here to help local leadership: We provide standards of volunteering, standards of research, dedicated volunteer training, data collection apps, and attendance to liability concerns.
- Turtles are more difficult to study and monitor than one may think.
- It is vital for conservation to ensure that data is collected using standard tools and methods in order for the information to be usable for research purposes.
- Also it is important for conservation that that volunteers conduct and care is careful, respectful and consistent in order to grow awareness and respect for these all collective recovery efforts.
- Turtle Guardians and Scales Nature Park (START: Saving Turtles at Risk Today) have partnered to ensure that local community chapters can have the tools, standards, and resources to build a collective and conscientious effort to save our shelled friends.
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For individuals and groups that have accessed a WACC permit to take body measurements and other samples of turtles, the START project has guidelines for protocols, equipment specifications but also may provide access to applications for recording data.
Are you initiating a turtle conservation, monitoring and awareness group in your area? Efforts may include nest protection, road patrols and more. If so, you can become a Turtle Guardians chapter and receive training for all volunteers, standards of care and conduct for your team, reporting tools and applications to collect data, support from our hotline/dispatch, branded gear, and you may also qualify under our insurance as well.
Organization Partners
If you are a registered organization and are a permit holder as well as involved in volunteer recruitment and management, you can benefit from the collective of tools and resources. Contact Leora at info@turtleguardians.com to discuss partnership models.