Click here to donate directly to the Ocean Connectors program!
To read a complete description of this project, please visit the main
Ocean Connectors Project Page.

Don't forget what YOU
can do to help protect sea turtles & other marine life!

Check out these cool links:

• Stop using plastic bags! Use reusable shopping bags instead.
  
  
• Don't buy or eat seafood whose extraction results in bycatch.
  
  
• Visit any communities involved in sea turtle or coastal conservation.
  
  
• Practice the 3 Rs...Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle your trash!
  
  
• Become a member of a conservation organization.
  
  
• Get informed and spread the word!
  
  

• Click here to learn about a great brand of reusable shopping bags!
  
  
• Click here to learn about "safe" seafood!
  
  
• Click here to learn about communities that are involved in sea turtle preservation!
  
  
• Click here to visit the Grupo Tortuguero website and learn about the sea turtle conservation network!
  
  
• Click here to adopt a sea turtle from Pro Peninsula!
  
  
• Questions? Email your Ocean Connectors Education Coordinator!
  

Sea Life Facts:

• Gray whales can grow to be about 50 feet long! That’s about as long as one and a half school buses! Gray whales weigh about 80,000 pounds—that’s the weight of about 4 school busses!
• Sea turtles have lived on the planet for over 100 million years! Sea turtles thrived in the world's oceans until recently; modern human developments have pushed all 7 species of sea turtles to the brink of extinction.
• Gray whales feed by filtering their food through thick baleen plates. These baleen plates look just like straw. Gray whales have 130 to 180 baleen plates on each jaw!
• Green sea turtles can hold their breath for over an hour! This helps them on their migrations between nesting beaches on the western coast of Mexico and feeding grounds in San Diego Bay, California.
• A group of gray whales is called a “pod”.
• The black sea turtle is considered a sub-species of the green sea turtle. They share the same DNA, but exhibit some physical differences.
• The average life span of gray whales is unknown, but some female gray whales have lived to be about 75 years old.
• The largest green sea turtle ever to be found in the Eastern Pacific Ocean is named "Wrinkle-Bottom" and she weighs about 570 lbs! She is known to spend a lot of time in San Diego Bay.
• California gray whales migrate about 10,000 miles from their Arctic feeding grounds to the Baja California peninsula!
• 5 of the 7 species of sea turtles live in the Eastern Pacific Ocean!