Turtles choke on plastic bags and other garbage dumped into the ocean. To combat that, the Funzi Island Turtle Club regularly cleans beaches and replants mangroves. Members make and sell handicrafts fashioned from old flip-flops and other materials.

There are no reliable statistics on the number of turtles in Kenyan waters or estimates of the number of turtles killed each year. The most common turtle species in Kenya are the green, hawksbill and olive ridley.