Why did Responsible Travel conduct the investigation?
Last year, a customer on one of our sea turtle volunteering holidays in Sri Lanka raised concerns about the ethics of her trip – most notably that some turtles in the hatchery were kept in tanks. It was something that we’d been concerned about so we decided to carry out more research and have developed some guidelines.
What was the main finding from the investigation?
That tanks, into which some hatcheries place newly hatched turtles, can cause serious problems. Diseases and bacteria are easily transmitted, and can be passed on to wild turtles when the hatchlings are released.
