Baby Hawksbill Turtle Hatchlings Find Their Way to Sea in Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

Wednesday 19th of August 2020

Baby Hawksbill Turtle Hatchlings Find Their Way to Sea in Vilamendhoo Island Resort & Spa

Newly hatched baby Hawksbill turtles are swimming off into the ocean to begin their exciting journey of life at Vilamendhoo. The species has been categorized as critically endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which means they face an extremely high risk of extinction.

Hawksbills nest once in every two to four years and one interesting fact is that the females return to the exact same beach where they were hatched, to lay their eggs, and Vilamendhoo is proud to say that these divine creatures have chosen their island to give such a phenomenal experience.

Vilamendhoo Island Resort, surrounded by a beautiful lagoon, with an excellent house reef and long stretches of white, sandy beach, is the only Resort of Vilamendhoo, South Ari Atoll. This luxury resort forms part of one of the biggest hospitality companies in the Maldives, Crown & Champa Resorts. As part of the Crown & Champa Resorts’ collection Vilamendhoo adheres to the guidelines set out by the corporate sustainability report.

They believe in creating a more sustainable hospitality industry, as such continually striving to find greener, better, more responsible and sustainable solutions or methods to implement in their daily operations.

Continuous monitoring will be done with areas of improvement identified. The aim is to meet and exceed, the corporate expectations expressed in the corporate sustainability policy and to uphold the high regard that Crown and Champa Resorts remains as the most sustainable hotel management chain in the Maldives.