Overview
- Animals at Disney and Disney Conservation announced in an Instagram video that Disney will participate in this year’s Tour de Turtles, a reveal made public on Monday.
- The activation is billed as Moana‑themed and features Catherine Laga’aia, the star of the live‑action film, as the public face of the effort.
- Organizers published a roster of named turtles that each represent a conservation issue, including plastic debris, light pollution, boat strikes, coastal erosion, oil spills and commercial longline fisheries.
- Disney says the event will arrive "later this summer" but has not given a specific date, and the Tour de Turtles events page has not yet listed the Vero Beach appearance.
- The program fits satellite trackers to nesting turtles to gather migration and dive data for researchers; Disney‑sponsored turtles have logged roughly 55,000 miles and Vero Beach has produced large numbers of nests and hatchlings that feed these studies.