The cost of visiting the museum is by donation, with the goal of supporting the investigations of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation, which studies the reptiles of Tortuguero.
According to the Florida-based Caribbean Conservation Corporation (also known as the Sea Turtle Survival League), present goals for protecting sea turtles include: cracking down on the illegal international trade in turtles and turtle products; forcing fishing boats to use "turtle excluder devices" in their nets to decrease turtle deaths; establishing more coastal refuges to keep development from encroaching on turtle nesting beaches; decreasing artificial light near nesting beaches (light scares turtles away); enforcing laws to minimize the dumping of pollutants and solid waste into the ocean and near-shore waters; and stepping up turtle monitoring activities so conservation efforts can stay focused where they are most needed.
In an attempt to curb diving accidents, Nietschmann, marine biologist Bill Alevizon, and the Florida-based Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC) initiated a scuba-training course on the Miskito coast to educate divers about how to avoid air embolisms and decompression sickness, called "the bends.
As David Godfrey, Executive Director of the Caribbean Conservation Corporation & The Sea Turtle Survival League, states: "Florida's east coast beaches provide nesting habitat for the world's largest remaining population of threatened loggerhead turtles, as well as globally important populations of endangered green and leatherback turtles.
Refuge Partners Brevard Zoo California Turtle and Tortoise Society Caribbean Conservation Corporation Columbus Zoo Defenders of Wildlife Disney Corporation Florida Affinity, Inc.
It was only fitting, therefore, that Wildlife Conservation International (WCI), along with the Caribbean Conservation Corporation (CCC), select the name Paseo Pantera (Path of the Panther) for a bold new conservation program that will follow the path of the mountain lion and other members of the cat family through Central America.
These product lines are associated with, and help to support, various conservation groups such as Caribbean Conservation Corporation, Earth Island Institute, Hornocker Wildlife Institute, Institute of Range and the American Mustang, International Wildlife Coalition, Nature Conservancy, The Raptor Center, Wolf Education and Research Center and Yellowstone Grizzly Foundation.
