Measures to protect sea turtles

Renatura Congo is a non-profit organisation (law of 1 July 1901), active since 2005 on the coast of Pointe-Noire, Republic of Congo. In 2025, the organisation celebrated twenty years of commitment.

Its missions: marine biodiversity and ecosystem protection, nesting beach monitoring, anti-poaching efforts, supply of fishing equipment, local community outreach and environmental education.

Behind these missions is a remarkable team. Dozens of field agents are trained and deployed across nearly 200 km of the Congolese coastline. Dedicated women and men who patrol beaches day and night, protect nests and raise awareness in coastal villages. Demanding fieldwork, carried out with conviction for two decades now.

Renatura Congo has released more than 18 500 turtles since 2005, including 734 over the past two years, and protects 2500 turtles and nests every year.

Official website: renatura.org

A commitment set to evolve

Honu's commitment to sea turtles continues to build, with rigour, consistency and transparency.

New initiatives will be announced soon, always with the same intention: to connect handcrafted creation to protecting the living world.

A piece, a commitment

Today, every piece sold contributes directly to the protection of sea turtles.

Your purchase	What Honu donates
A piece from our collections	1 % of the pre-tax selling price donated to a partner organisation
A piece from the Kalunga Capsule	5 % of the pre-tax selling price donated to a partner organisation

The Kalunga Capsule, coming soon

The Kalunga Capsule is a collection dedicated to action for sea turtles.

It will launch several times throughout the year, around specific events and for a limited time. It will offer unique pieces.

For every piece of jewellery from the Kalunga Capsule Collection sold, 5 per cent is donated to a charity and directly allocated to the protection of sea turtles and their nesting beaches.

The jewellery from the Kalunga Capsule Collection is currently being created in the workshop. The first designs will be available online in the coming months.

Where worlds meet

There is a word in the Bakongo language to describe the exact place where the visible meets the invisible, where life touches the afterlife and where the ocean becomes a passage.

That word is Kalunga.

In Kongo cosmology, Kalunga is the sacred line that separates the world of the living from the world of the ancestors. The ocean is its most vast manifestation, steeped in memory and movement. The water spirits, the Bisimbi, guide souls from one world to the next. Every wave carries a memory and every current connects what we see with what we feel.

On the coast of the Congo, where the Atlantic meets the sand, sea turtles come ashore every year to lay their eggs. They traverse thousands of kilometres of ocean and then return to the place where they were born. They cross Kalunga in both directions, carrying within them that eternal cycle of departure and return which the Bakongo have always known.

Honu and Kalunga speak the same language: that of longevity, wisdom and the unbreakable bond between humankind and the ocean.

Complete transparency

Trust is built on evidence, so every year I publish the following here:

• The total amount donated by Honu to one or more charities (including additional donations)
• The initiatives that these charities have been able to fund thanks to the donations received

Thank you to these organisations for the exceptional work they carry out every day for these precious creatures, which must be cared for just as one would a valuable piece of jewellery.

And thank you to you, our customers, friends, ocean lovers and those who respect all living things, who make this initiative possible. Every piece of Honu jewellery you wear now becomes a link in a greater chain: that of the preservation of life.

Isabelle Bénatouil