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The Barbados Sea Turtle Project operates a 24-hour "Turtle Hotline". Coastal property residents and staff, beach-goers and visitors are encouraged to report any sea turtle nesting or hatching activity to the BSTP. BSTP staff members are out patrolling the beaches on a nightly basis. However, we cannot possibly cover the entire island, nor can we be everywhere at the same time. Therefore, public calls are greatly appreciated and are valuable aids in conservation and research efforts. We cannot succeed without your help.
The BSTP would like to know about all types of turtle related activities which can include: turtles on the beach nesting, turtle tracks or a nest on the beach (even if the turtle is no longer present), turtles wandering off the beach onto roads or into properties, disorientated hatchlings, hatchling tracks, exposed eggs in the sand, injured or dead turtles, poachings.
Turtle Hotline Phone Number: 230-0142
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While school is in session, the BSTP makes presentations to students throughout the island. We also speak to numerous camps during the summer vacation.
Hotel and clubs request presentations to locals and tourists interested in the environment.
Hatchling releases are staged when rescue attempts have been made to collect disorientated hatchlings that have crawled their way into hotels, restaurants, beach front villas, or across a road.
Newspaper articles, local and international television, and radio programmes are used to widely spread information about sea turtle issues in Barbados and the other Caribbean territories.
| The BSTP tries to keep turtle events as natural as possible. Therefore, if hatchlings are making their way safely to the sea, the BSTP will not interfere and will allow the hatchlings to proceed naturally. However, if hatchlings travel inland due to disorientation by lights, a rescue effort is made to gather them up and to release them on a darker section of the beach where they can walk themselves into the sea. |  |
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