An Easy Way to Help:
Before leaving the beach, please remember to flatten sandcastles etc and fill holes. Please ask your visitors and renters to do this as well. These actions protect mother sea turtles and their hatchlings. Thank you for helping!
June 12. 2020
Hi CSM Neighbors,
It is time once again to kick off CSM’s Adopt a Beach Campaign! As most of you are aware, Adopt a Beach is the Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation’s (SCCF) initiative to support sea turtles. The program’s goals are simple: 1.) SCCF is striving to have all of us be well-informed ambassadors/advocates for sea turtles who nest on our shores and 2.) We are trying to raise $2 for every foot of CSM’s shoreline. $2 per foot may be very little to us, but to SCCF’s sea turtle program it makes a measurable difference. (According to SCCF, our neighborhood has approximately 1900-2000 feet of shoreline so our goal is to raise a minimum of $4,000.) Funds are used solely for things like nest marking supplies, equipment, and sea turtle research and monitoring activities.
Chateaux Sur Mer was Sanibel’s first community to participate in the Adopt a Beach program. Your tax deductible contribution will ensure that we retain our leadership role in supporting one of the island’s greatest wildlife treasures. In 2017 we raised $5400 and the impact of our donation was doubled with a one-time matching grant. In 2018 our participation increased by three more homeowners and Chateaux Sur Mer contributed $8550 to SCCF's campaign. Last year our neighborhood donated $9000 to Adopt a Beach. We can be proud of our efforts, and naturally we are hoping we can rise up once again, pull together as a neighborhood, and fully participate in SCCF’s Adopt-A-Beach program benefitting sea turtle monitoring and research. We already have a generous donation from enthusiastic CSM turtle lovers who just couldn’t wait for us to get started!
Please consider contributing to this important cause. CSM’s campaign will begin with this email and run through July 11.
Your check should be made out to SCCF and it should be sent to: Robin Coleman, 4771 Rue Helene, Sanibel 33957. Checks will be held until the end of the campaign and then delivered to SCCF in July.
SCCF will send us sea turtle updates throughout the season as they have in the past. Their staff and volunteers do such a wonderful job of protecting Sanibel's sea turtles, and you can see examples of their efforts by visiting CSM's website. Click on Adopt a Beach tabs for 2018 and 2019 to view pictures, videos, and information from our campaigns. https://www.chateauxsurmer.org/#home-section
Please remember that we can all help to protect sea turtles and their nests by following guidelines as detailed on the City of Sanibel’s website: http://www.mysanibel.com/Departments/Natural-Resources/Protecting-Our-Beaches/Sea-Turtles.
Thank you in advance for participating at whatever level you can before July 12. We are hopeful that this summer will present us with clear waters and healthy sea turtles!
Best regards,
CSM Board