Fundacao Tartaruga is a member of the international network of Turtle Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to the worldwide conservation of sea turtles and oceans. Turtle Foundation maintains important conservation projects for sea turtles in Cabo Verde and Indonesia.

The sea turtle conservation project on Boa Vista, Cabo Verde, which is implemented by Fundação Tartaruga with the involvement of the local population of the island, started in 2008 in response to the large-scale killing of nesting females of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta).


The project operates on nine different nesting beach areas around the island, where teams are deployed to conduct night patrols and daily data collection with local staff and national and international volunteers during the nesting season between June and end of October.