summer club | Reserva Playa Tortuga

Attention local businesses: RPT has now available a Sponsorship Program

admin — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 23:22:43 +0000

For this year Reserva Playa Tortuga has prepared a Sponsorship Program, so local businesses can benefit from advertising, while help us to raise the necessary funds to offer this opportunity, at a very low cost, to local children who would not have the means to pay to participate in this type of initiative. We offer this 3 options that will help your business to be recognized in the community.

Summer Camp is an eco-focused camp arising from the need for children in small rural communities to access and participate in recreational and educational activities for summer vacation. The objective of this initiative is to guide youth and promote conservation by inspiring an appreciation of natural resources near their communities. Proposed activities include presentations about marine life, sea turtles and their habitats and threats, beach cleanup, and various field-based programs including a visit to the sea turtle hatchery, working at the Butterfly Garden, setting up cameras traps, trips to museum, national parks, etc.

IMPORTANT: To participate in our Sponsorship program donations must be submitted by December 30.

To receive the Sponsorship Program and/or make a donation, please contact directly RPT Environmental Education Program and Summer Camp coordinator, Melissa Jimenez K. mjimenez@reservaplayatortuga.org

Another successful Summer Club is over!

admin — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 02:04:59 +0000

So, the Summer Club 2019 is over and surely the kids had a blast. They learnt not just on the theory, but also on the field, about so many species and ecosystem in generally. Some of the activities they did were: canopy at Hacienda Baru, turtle exhumation and release, snorkeling and whale watching boat trip, manglar and Garza Island trip, a lot of games, visit to the Butterfly Garden, on the trails around the reserve, and a lot more!

The coordinator of the Environmental Education & Outreach project, Melissa Jiménez-Kardentay, shares some thoughts about the last Summer Club, carried out between January 14th until the 31st.

After 3 weeks at full power with the guys from the camp we finished our Summer Club 2019 and we want to give an special thanks to the Food Bank, Cleveland High School Students in NC, Life Project Education, drivers for kids every day and the different donors for making it possible for these boys and girls have an experience of hand with Nature, alive, acting and choosing for nature and its conservation.
Grateful to the parents who entrust us one more year to establish environmental values in their sons and daughters.
See you the next year!

Kids are having so much fun on the Summer Club 2019

admin — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 21:20:33 +0000

The year 2019 arrived and with it also began a new version of the Summer Club, organized by Reserva Playa Tortuga .

The objective of this initiative is to guide children and youth and promote conservation by inspiring an appreciation of natural resources near their communities.

This year a new group joined the Summer Club, therefore, now there are 3 groups:
“Vivo por Naturaleza”, 7 to 9 years old.
“Actúo por Naturaleza”, 10 to 12 years old.
“Elijo por Naturaleza”, 13 to 15 years old.

The proposed activities include research activities, presentations on marine life, sea turtles, their habitats and threats, beach cleaning and several field programs that include a visit to the sea turtle hatchery, work in the Butterfly Garden, installing traps for cameras, exit to Ballena Marine Park, Hacienda Baru, etc.

If your son / daughter / neighbor / friend / student could not participate this year, do not be discouraged, you just have to be visit our social media and website next year and sign up early, since the spaces fill up very quickly.