Bolívar · 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.
What we do
Nidos de Vida (“Nests of Life”) began in July 2023, hand in hand with La Playita hotel and the fishers of Isla Fuerte. The idea is simple and powerful: when a turtle ends up in their nets, the fisher has an alternative. They bring it in alive, we measure it, tag it, take its photo-ID, and it goes back to the sea.
In the first year, more than 100 turtles made their way back home. Among them was an adult female loggerhead of about 100 kg, one of those releases you never forget.
Isla Fuerte is a key feeding ground for juvenile hawksbills. Following them is helping us understand the turtles’ “lost years”, a stage of their lives that science still knows very little about.
In numbers
100+
turtles back to the sea in the first year
2023
the year Nidos de Vida began
Species we find here
Loggerhead (cabezona) · Caguama
Caretta caretta
The turtle on the thousand-peso coin
In ColombiaCR · Critically endangered
Who we work with
Communities
- Fishers of Isla Fuerte
Institutions and allies
- La Playita Isla Fuerte hotel
Support Isla Fuerte
Since July 2023, the island's fishers and La Playita hotel have given every turtle an alternative: going back to the sea alive.