Launched in 2017, Sea Shepherd's Operation Jairo Med is a campaign to protect the endangered population of loggerhead sea turtles in the Mediterranean Sea on land by patrolling nesting beaches in western Italian shores, and at sea with the Sea Eagle by removing illegal fishing gear in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily and west of the Aeolian Islands. 

In 2025, Sea Shepherd Italy volunteers are conducting land-based surveillance from the campaign’s mobile base—the Enzo Maiorca camper, in collaboration with the Salerno section of ENPA (National Animal Protection Agency) and coordinated by the Anton Dohrn Zoological Station as part of the LIFE Turtlenest project. The activity is further supported by aerial reconnaissance with an ultralight aircraft, which allows for rapid identification of turtle emergence and nesting traces along wide sections of coastline.