Best-scenario estimates suggest only one in one thousand turtle hatchlings survives to adulthood under normal conditions. We feel that a helping hand to reverse the declining trend in numbers brought about by mankind's intervention, is the least we can do to ensure our planet is handed down to our children in as good a state as it was handed down to us.

The biological value of an egg or a hatchling pales in comparison to that of a large adult female, which has survived the worst and is of sufficient size to be ignored by even the largest predators. An egg has a one in one-thousandth chance of surviving, while a 1-year old has a much higher chance of surviving due to its larger size. For this reason we feel that keeping ten or twenty eggs for our trials is justified. Should the project succeed, we will have ensured that a few more turtles make it to that ripe old age at which they can take up the reproductive duties of the clan.

The green sea turtle is on the red list