Contribute to the renovation of the Phenicia oceanographic vessel.

With its return to the sea you will help us to promote the development of culture, scientific research, the protection of the marine and coastal landscape. The Dohrn Foundation intends to enhance the nautical asset of the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station (SZN) - National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnology, otherwise decommissioned, using it for the promotion and dissemination of scientific research of the SZN and for environmental awareness activities .

La Phenicia will host students to carry out educational workshops and will support the activity of Italian and foreign university and EPR researchers for their analyzes and sampling. It will also be able to accommodate people with disabilities to make them live experiences of direct contact with the sea and its inhabitants. It will be used to support demonstration actions of environmental restoration and for the monitoring of turtles and marine mammals at sea. The release of turtles treated and rehabilitated at the Turtle Point in Portici will finally be able to provide for the presence on board not only of professionals but above all of students, disabled people and citizens. Help us in this enterprise, even with a small contribution, no matter how much, you will help us carry out training, information and environmental protection projects.

Inside the former municipal slaughterhouse of Portici, stands the Turtle Point - Recovery and Rehabilitation Center for Sea Turtles, an exceptional example of urban redevelopment that has transformed a place of death into a place of life, recovery and survival.

Inside, these animals found in difficult conditions, mainly due to the impact of human activities on the environment, are cared for and assisted until their return to nature and freedom.
This is not an exhibition aquarium but a different and unique journey, which allows you to discover up close what it means for a sea turtle to ingest a plastic bag or get trapped in a ghost net and in waste that ends up in the sea.

You will closely observe the turtles inside the rehabilitation tanks, an exciting experience, in direct contact with one of the oldest animals on our planet!
You will discover life-size models of large marine vertebrates, such as basking sharks and dolphins!

Come and visit us, your visit will support our work at the service of Nature. Because there is no Culture if not
you know Nature!