Sea Turtle Conservancy

{{Short description|US non-profit organization}}

{{Infobox organization

| name = Sea Turtle Conservancy

| formation = {{start date and age|1959||}}

| abbreviation = STC

| founder = Joshua B. Powers

| type = Nonprofit

| tax_id = 59-6151069

| status = 501(c)(3)

| headquarters = Gainesville, Florida

| website = {{URL|https://conserveturtles.org/}}

}}The Sea Turtle Conservancy (STC), formerly known as Caribbean Conservation Corporation, is an American not-for-profit 501(c)(3) membership organization based in Gainesville, Florida. It was incorporated, based on an earlier informal organization known as The Brotherhood of the Green Turtle,{{cite book |title=Turtle Bogue: Afro-Caribbean life and culture in a Costa Rican village |last=Lefever |first=Harry G. |year=1992 |publisher=Susquehanna University Press |isbn=978-0-945636-23-6 |page=140}} in 1959 by Joshua B. Powers, who was inspired by ecologist Archie Carr's book The Windward Road, which documented threats to sea turtles.{{cite book |title=The man who saved sea turtles: Archie Carr and the origins of conservation biology |last=Davis |first=Frederick Rowe |year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press US |isbn=978-0-19-531077-1 |page=163}}{{cite book |title=American environmental leaders: from colonial times to the present |last=Becher |first=Anne |year=2000 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-57607-162-5 |page=150}}{{cite book |title=Biodiversity and the precautionary principle: risk and uncertainty in conservation and sustainable use |last=Dickson |first=Barney |author2=Rosie Cooney |year=2005 |publisher=Earthscan |isbn=978-1-84407-277-4 |page=118}}{{cite book |title=The man who saved sea turtles: Archie Carr and the origins of conservation biology |last=Davis |first=Frederick Rowe |year=2007 |publisher=Oxford University Press US |isbn=978-0-19-531077-1 |page=260}}{{cite book |title=Policymaking for conservation in Latin America: national parks, reserves, and the environment |last=Hopkins |first=Jack W. |year=1995 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=978-0-275-95349-2 |page=42}}{{cite web |url=https://conserveturtles.org/wp-content/uploads/Tortuguero%20Green%20Turtle%20Report%201999.pdf |title=Report on the 1999 Green Turtle Program at Tortuguero, Costa Rica |publisher=Caribbean Conservation Corporation and the Ministry of Environment and Energy of Costa Rica |date=22 February 2000 |first1=Sebastian |last1=Troëng |first2=Jeff |last2=Mangel |first3=Sheleyla |last3=Kélez |first4=Andy |display-authors=etal |last4=Meyers |pages=11, 21–23, 29, 32 |access-date=27 November 2018 |archive-date=27 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127193718/https://conserveturtles.org/wp-content/uploads/Tortuguero%20Green%20Turtle%20Report%201999.pdf |url-status=dead }}