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Territories

Seven territories, two coasts and one way of working, with the communities who live on every beach, every island and every bay.

Caribbean SeaPacific OceanSeaflowerSan Bernardo Archipelago1Isla Fuerte · Nidos de Vida2La Plata, Bahía Málaga · La MINGA3Chocó Pacific4Seaflower Biosphere Reserve5Gulf of Urabá and Acandí6Cartagena · Iniciativa Carey7

Territories on the map

  1. 1San Bernardo Archipelago
  2. 2Isla Fuerte · Nidos de Vida
  3. 3La Plata, Bahía Málaga · La MINGA
  4. 4Chocó Pacific
  5. 5Seaflower Biosphere Reserve
  6. 6Gulf of Urabá and Acandí
  7. 7Cartagena · Iniciativa Carey

Explore each territory

  • Santa Cruz del Islote, in the San Bernardo Archipelago

    1Bolívar · Colombian Caribbean

    San Bernardo Archipelago

    Colombia's longest-running systematic, standardized monitoring program in turtle feeding and transit areas, carried out with fishers and with children who now lead it.

  • Isla Fuerte fishers releasing a turtle from the Nidos de Vida program

    2Bolívar · Colombian Caribbean

    Isla Fuerte · Nidos de Vida

    Since July 2023, the island's fishers and La Playita hotel have given every turtle an alternative: going back to the sea alive.

  • Aerial view of the Bahía Málaga archipelago

    3Valle del Cauca · Colombian Pacific

    La Plata, Bahía Málaga · La MINGA

    Turtle censuses led by local fishers and the community council: ancestral and scientific knowledge, together.

  • Playa Larga, near El Valle, on the Chocó Pacific coast

    4Bahía Solano, El Valle, Juná, Mecana and Nuquí · Chocó

    Chocó Pacific

    Home to El Valle, the most important olive ridley nesting beach in South America, where communities have become guardians of the nests.

  • Johnny Cay and the sea of seven colors in San Andrés

    5San Andrés, Providencia and the Serrana, Serranilla and Roncador cays

    Seaflower Biosphere Reserve

    The most important nesting area in the Colombian Caribbean for hawksbill, loggerhead and green turtles, protected together with the Colombian Navy.

  • The Acandí coast, in the Gulf of Urabá

    6Necoclí and Acandí · Antioquia and Chocó

    Gulf of Urabá and Acandí

    Bobalito, the largest hawksbill nesting area on the continental Caribbean, and La Playona, the leatherback sanctuary.

  • Colonial fortifications of Cartagena de Indias

    7Bolívar · Colombian Caribbean

    Cartagena · Iniciativa Carey

    Since 2014 we have confronted the hawksbill shell trade through training, conversations with vendors and an app to tell real from fake.

Beyond Colombia

Turtles know no borders

A turtle born on one beach may feed thousands of kilometers away. That's why we also work with Panama, in Saboga and the Pearl Islands and in Taboga, including work against hawksbill trafficking with SENAN. And through our scientific director, WIDECAST's coordinator in Colombia, we are part of the regional network caring for turtles across the Wider Caribbean.

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