MEDASSET-Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles is an international NGO registered as a not-for profit organisation in Greece. With roots back to 1983, MEDASSET was founded in 1988 in England and in 1993 in Greece with the aim to protect and conserve sea turtles and their habitats throughout the Mediterranean Sea, through research, policy, awareness raising and education.
Since 1988, MEDASSET is a partner to UNEP/MAP (Mediterranean Action Plan) and its Action Plan for the Conservation of Marine Turtles in the Mediterranean, a Permanent Observer-member of the Bern Convention for the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats, a member of the Greek Herpetological Society, of MIO-ECSDE and of the Marine Ecology & Conservation Network of Exeter University (UK). MEDASSET is the recipient of several Greek and international awards.