There's a solution to this problem, and YOU can help Mexico bring it about.
Thank you to the international network of scientists, fishers, politicians, organizations, agencies, and concerned individuals who have taken up this important cause over the past 15 years. Your efforts are working!
1. Please sign Yuki's petiton asking Mexico's Presedient to support responsible fishermen.
2. Please sign Defenders of Wildlife's petition asking President Pena Nieto to help protect loggerheads and support fishermen as they transition off of the deadly fishing gear.
3. Please sign Turtle Island's online petition (en espanol) asking President Pena Nieto's cabinet to help protect loggerhead turtles in Baja.
4. And please share these link with everyone you know around the world. The pressure is working!
With this campaign you can help save thousands of endangered sea turtles each year AND support the fishermen working hard to change their industry.
We won't give up until it's done.
For the past twenty years fishermen and scientists have worked together to study and protect the loggerhead sea turtles in Mexico that make an epic migration from their beaches in Japan, 7,000 miles across the Pacific Ocean to feed along the Baja Peninsula.But the turtles meet a terible fate off the coast of Lopez Mateos, Mexico