"Let's Get Cracking" Turtle Incubation Center Tracker

Since 1991, due to efforts of the Con Dao National Park Authority, Con Dao has become the leading location for turtle conservation in Southeast Asia (as reported by Tuoi Tre newspaper – Vietnamese language), and the Let’s Get Cracking incubation center at Six Senses Con Dao is an innovative partnership that has helped to increase the effectiveness of these efforts. The center protects turtle eggs from numerous natural risks such as flooding, predators, and poachers. Further optimization of incubation conditions based on careful scientific observation and improvement successful hatching rates at the center have reached around 90%. This is more than two times higher than what occurs naturally. In the last five years, Let’s Get Cracking has released more than 19,000 baby turtles.