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Keep your distance
Watch quietly. Do not touch, grab, feed, ride, or chase sea turtles.
TURTLE SAFETY / KNOW WHAT TO DO
Look out for
our ocean locals.
Practical ways to keep Bermuda's turtles safe — without touching, chasing, or disturbing them.
EMERGENCY / ACT NOW
Injured, entangled, stranded or dead turtle?
Call the Bermuda Turtle Project / BAMZ hotline immediately. This website cannot dispatch wildlife responders. Follow the professionals' instructions; do not attempt a rescue yourself.
Call +1 441 293-2727, press 999 ↗
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Protect seagrass
Do not anchor in seagrass beds or damage coral. Use established moorings where available.
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Boating awareness
Slow down in turtle habitats and watch the water for surfacing animals.
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Leave nothing behind
Secure loose fishing line, dispose of plastics properly and join supervised cleanups.
REPORT
Possible nesting
Do not approach nesting turtles, nests, tracks, or hatchlings. Report sightings to BAMZ; avoid flash photography and lights.
KNOW
Protected wildlife
All marine turtles are protected in Bermuda. Capture, harassment and unauthorized handling can violate local law.
Illustrative conservation photographs from outside the Bermuda program; they do not document Legends for Turtles activities.
Safety photograph credits
Snorkelers and sea turtle — Vlad & Marina Butsky (CC BY 2.0) · Seagrass turtle — P.Lindgren (CC BY-SA 3.0) · Motorboat — Apeksha Khanna (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Marine debris — Fquasie (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Turtle tracks — Ifremer (CC BY 4.0) · Turtle underwater — existing program photo licensed via Unsplash.
CC licenses: BY 2.0, BY 4.0, BY-SA 3.0, BY-SA 4.0. Images resized/cropped.