Every time you be a part of a SWA retreat, you assist to help essential initiatives that influence the native communities aT our retreat areas.
For a number of years we’ve been supporting an incredible sea turtle conservation undertaking in Punta Banco, a small seashore group in Southern Costa Rica close to one in every of our retreat areas. The undertaking not solely helps defend turtles from environmental threats and human consumption but additionally offers work alternatives for locals in the neighborhood. Throughout retreats we’ve been fortunate sufficient to observe the group develop and assist launch a whole bunch of child sea turtles alongside native volunteers.
Within the final 7 years the undertaking has been utterly within the fingers of the native environmental fee, which is a part of the Punta Banco neighborhood affiliation. Whereas the main focus with different organizations up to now was once “simply” conservation, the undertaking now additionally tries to go away a constructive socio-economic influence on the village group.
The undertaking is nearly absolutely funded by personal donations which assist the group construct hatcheries and pay native volunteers. Click on right here to be taught extra in regards to the Punta Banco Sea Turtle Conservation Challenge and how one can help by adopting a sea turtle nest or donating to the undertaking.
