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Make this Valentine’s Day unforgettable for you and your sweetheart by falling in love with sea turtles. Surprise that special someone with a unique, eco-friendly sea turtle adoption from Sea Turtle Conservancy.

A sea turtle adoption, featuring your personalized with your loved one’s name, is a fun and meaningful way to show how much you care. Plus, adoptions help support vital sea turtle research and conservation programs.

For a tax-deductible donation of $25 or more, Sea Turtle Conservancy (STC) will send a personalized adoption certificate, a Sea Turtle Conservation Guide, a membership window cling, a sea turtle sticker and bookmark, a hatchling magnet, and a one-year subscription to STC’s membership publication - all in a beautiful keepsake turtle folder.

STC also offers Sea Turtle Adoption Gift Cards that gives your sweetheart the option of choosing which turtle to adopt. Visit www.conserveturtles.org to meet the sea turtles available for adoption, learn more about STC’s conservation program and adopt your favorite turtle.

Then cuddle up together with that special someone to follow the amazing migration of your adopted turtle online as she travels the world’s oceans.

CCC joined other conservation groups today to issue a notice of intent to sue the National Marine Fisheries  Service does not act to stop bottom longline fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. This comes after observer data revealed 1,000 threatened and endangered sea turtles were caught between July 2006 and the end of 2007.

To read the news release, please visit CCC's press room at http://www.cccturtle.org/pressreleases.php?page=n_Gulf-of-Mexico-Longline-release

To read the notice, please visit http://www.cccturtle.org/pdf/GulfBLLESA60DayNoticeLtr.pdf

A 350 lbs Loggerhead sea turtle was released as part of the first-ever sea turtle migration marathon Tour de Turtles.

Watch the video, including the live release and interviews at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk7FWUVjY_U!

http://www.tourdeturtles.org