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Help WWF protect turtles.

Help WWF protect turtles in Australia's waters. Six out of the seven species of marine turtle living in Australia's waters are either critically endangered or endangered.


The main threats to marine turtles are:
  • Unsustainable coastal development that impacts on turtle habitat
  • Conflict with human activity including incidental capture in fishing gear and boat strike
  • Ingestion of, and entanglement in, marine debris
  • Feral predation
  • Illegal or unsustainable hunting
  • Increases in global temperatures, which disrupt the turtles' temperature-dependent sex determination and could lead to population instability
 

Your adoption of Hector the turtle will help WWF to protect marine turtles around Australia.

About Hector the Green Turtle

Hector is a green turtle from Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

Hector's home is a world of indescribable colour. He glides through the most brilliant, sapphire-blue waters on earth, alive with fish of every fantastic shape and size.

In some parts of the Reef, turtles like Hector are being affected by the fibropapilloma (FP) virus, which may cause blindness, immobility, the obstruction of internal organs and death among young green turtles. The virus may be occurring because of pollutants from industry or pesticides washing into the Reef.

All of our turtle adopters "adopt" Hector so that we can share his ongoing story with you. We hope that by following Hector's progress on the Great Barrier Reef you can experience the challenges and successes involved in conserving this beautiful creature.

 
About turtles


 
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Adopt a turtle today
 

1. Adoption option

Choose a monthly payment
  $20
could help WWF to extend Indigenous partners' capacity to monitor and manage marine turtles, tackle illegal and unsustainable hunting, and investigate the emergence of the fibropapilloma virus in their sea country
  $25
could help WWF in working to ban key pesticides that pose unacceptable risks to marine turtles and other wildlife, which in turn improves Great Barrier Reef water quality
  $30
could help WWF in our campaign to increase habitat protection nationally through critical habitat protection and the creation of Marine Protected Areas and Indigenous Protected Areas in key turtle feeding and breeding areas

  Other $ (whole dollars without the decimal point)

This adoption is
Type of adoption

(You will still receive an adoption pack and updates on your adopted species)

 
 

Your turtle adoption pack will include:

Turtle adoption pack
  • A cuddly toy turtle (optional)
  • An adoption pack
  • Updates from the field
 

 

Your turtle adoption pack will include:

  • An adoption pack
  • Updates from the field
 

 

How you are helping the turtles:

Your support will help WWF to:


  • work with Indigenous partners to protect, conserve, monitor and manage marine turtles
  • campaign to increase habitat protection nationally in key turtle feeding and breeding areas
  • work to reduce threats from fishing through habitat protection and gear modification
  • work to ban key pesticides that pose unacceptable risks to marine turtles and other wildlife

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3. Payment details

 
 

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