Achievements & Awards
Highlighted achievements of TREE Foundation to date:
- Released 44,67,463 Olive Ridley hatchlings (baby turtles) successfully to the sea.
- Satellite tagged 2 Olive Ridleys and 1 Green turtle becoming the first ever NGO in India to satellite-tag turtles.
- Trained 383 fishers from 242 fishing villages as ‘Sea Turtle Protection Force’.
- 7,040 artisanal fishermen trained in Release of entangled endangered marine species.
- 6,842 officers from Forest, Fisheries, Indian Coast Guard, Marine Police have undergone State-level workshops.
- More than 3,91,710 fishing community members have undergone marine conservation awareness programs
- Demonstration of Turtle Excluder Device (TED) to 3,260 trawl boat owner association members for voluntary implementation.
- First NGO to conduct Turtle Excluder Device trials in association with CIFT, and independent trials with trawl fishers at the fishing harbour in Chennai
- Placed ‘How to Safely Release Turtle’ sticker on 4,230 boats.
- Trained 5,675 teachers in biodiversity awareness.
- Educated 2,95,448 students through awareness activities from 500 schools & colleges enrolled under “TREE Foundation Ocean Guardian School Program”.
- More than 85% of the fishing community educated on the role of turtles.
- 2,150 tribal people educated to stop poaching turtles.
- Trained 17,000 artisanal fishers on “Safety at Sea”.
- Data archived for the states of Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Odisha and Goa.
- More than 49,800 people participated in guided turtle walks
- Rescue/rehabilitation of 48 adult and juvenile Olive Ridley, 7 juvenile Green and 5 Hawksbill turtles and two Spinner dolphins.
- Fishermen released 944 Olive Ridley, Green, Hawksbill Turtles, Sharks and Marine Mammals entangled in fishing and ghost nets (Ray- Fish, nets set for squid and Gill nets).
- 1,86,224 kgs of ghost net retrieved by fishermen, handed over to TREE Foundation through the Ghost Net Retrieval incentivization program.
- Mission Sea Turtle, in 2015 a one-day workshop for viable solutions and strengthen networks to mitigate sea turtle mortality and protect associated ecosystems, was conducted in Chennai (Tamil Nadu) and Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh).
- In 2025, a workshop to reduce mortality of marine megafauna was conducted and Standard Operating Procedures was prepared. The workshop brought all the enforcement agencies.
- The Mission Sea Turtle Float was taken to 41 schools in Chennai, covering 35,975 students, 3,100 of the general public, and 16 fishing villages along the coast of Tamil Nadu and 5,637 people in 112 fishing villages and 4 harbours along Andhra Pradesh coast covering 11,378 fishers.
- Recorded the stranding of 14 species of marine mammals along Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh coast.
- Through MECR program, 1010 acres of Mangrove were conserved and restored along the coasts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
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Senior Sea Turtle Protection Force Member winning India's most inspriring Eco-Sapiens 2020 Award
India Biodiversity Award 2018
Bhoomika Award 2018
