Across 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 Zone Leader?
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. Gathering data in useful and standardized formats ensures that we can all contribute and analyze trends.
- 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 have created tools, standards, and resources to build capacity and ensure our work is meaningful and respected.
Find out more...
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 Area Leader or Zone 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.
Affiliated Zones and Area Leaders
Standards and Practices - Codes of Conduct
Please note that Zones or Area Leaders and Turtle Guardian volunteers (those listed above and our staff and registered volunteers) must abide by Standards and Practices set out by the charity, including a Code of Conduct.
Basic standards include:
- not trespassing on private property
- not monitoring roads with speed limits of 80km or over by bicycle or on foot (only with a motorized vehicle)
- abiding by safe driving practices as prescribed including methods for "pulling off" roads and prioritizing human life ahead of animals at all times
- not misrepresenting facts about turtles, recovery efforts, and not representing the charity or our efforts without us present and without expressed permissions
- being kind, tolerant and patient with members of the public and authorities/stakeholders
If you have concerns about the practices of our staff, volunteers or partners/chapter leaders, please let us know by email info@turtleguardians.com