Upwell Turtles

Monitoring and protecting California’s critically endangered leatherback sea turtles

The Foundation’s funding helped Upwell Turtles provide critical information about the distribution, abundance, and migratory movements of leatherbacks.  The goal is to identify areas of leatherback concentration and document the timing of leatherback arrival and departure off the US West Coast, in support of leatherback entanglement risk assessments due to west coast fisheries.