When you donate to the Mediterranean Marine Life Center, your donated funds are used to run our year-round programs that support our mission of protecting the endangered Loggerhead sea turtle population on Zakynthos. Since being founded in 1991 we have worked tirelessly to research, monitor, and protect the sea turtles and other wildlife on the island.

The work we will do this season includes:

• Collect turtle nesting data on Gerakas Beach for our records
• Clean and monitor Gerakas Beach and the surrounding area of trash to prevent turtles from ingesting it
• Educate the thousands of visitors who visit Gerakas each day at our free turtle center
• Operate the only recycling program on Zakynthos
• Collect data to publish an annual report on human impact on Gerakas’s wildlife
• Continue to develop our erosion-intervention methods, such as the sand-saving shower system you can find right outside
• Run our yearly volunteer & intern program, welcoming over 50 volunteers and interns from all over the world
• Continue to run our center and the free facilities; sand saver shower, eco-cinema, information center, feeding animals, litter picks etc.
• Contiue to be the only permanent place on Zakynthos to offer free information to tourists open every day of the turtle season to help reiterate the rules of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos and Archelon’s information on sea turtles in person and online
• Continue to indirectly help save sea turtles by reporting missed nests, injured turtles and violations

We are supported financially by donors and money raised from our gift shop and snack bar. All donations go directly to further our mission. Donations are tax deductible in the USA and donors will receive regular updates throughout the season on the state of Gerakas Beach.