Project Report
| Jul 11, 2019
Final report of the In-water population study
By Sabine Berendse | Director
This is the final report for our Project "In water sea turtle population study". At the end of the year we repeated the study we did at the beginning of 2018. Again, lot's of turtles were found in the north shore inlets that showed tumors. These results are a great concern, however, due to a lack of funding we cannot continue researching this area.
We did prepare a plan for action to continue and we will be contacting stakeholders this year to see what we can do to keep monitoring in water.
On the south shore the in water study continues, with non invasive methods.
We would like to thank everybody that supported this project and we hope that we can continue the project in the future. Our mission to protect sea turtles and their habitat contiues, but for now we will be focussing on other threats.
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Feb 13, 2019
Progress Report Februari 2019
By Sabine Berendse | Founder & director
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Measuring SCL
Thanks to a partnership with Artemis, local veterinaries and a group of amazing volunteers we were able to conduct 2 capture and release sessions in 2018.
In January we found a large portion of sea turtles with tumor growth in some of the inlets along the noth shore. Based on the results and advises of internationally acknowledged scientists we asked permission for extra survey sessions in 2018 to gather more data to assess the severity of the infection on our sea turtle populations.
From October - November 2018 extra catch and release sessions were conducted. A new custom made net was made in Cartagena, Colombia. Safety protocols were upgraded and a collaboration was also formed with Artemis.
Total amount of turtles checked in the catch and release survey in 2018 were 167. Of these 68 were caught in January and 99 in Oktober and November.
The data collected gives us a better insight into our populations and their conditions.
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Measuring SCL
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Volunteers of catch an release survey Ascencion
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Nov 12, 2018
North shore inlets - sea turtle population
By Sabine Berendse | Founder & director
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Boka Ascencion results
After collevcting the necessary materials we were able to conduct 5 netting days in the last couple of months. On each day we did a minimum of 3 netting sessions of 1 hour. These netting sessions give us a lot of information about the sea turtle populations living in our north shore inlets. We do general health checks, measuring their carapace lenght, width and their weight.
Due to the risk of FP we have to work very secure.Each measuring station is cleaned 3 times before a new turtle is placed om it. Each day we have 2 measuring stations, which are manned by 4 people each. In the water there is a special team of 10 people.
We have 3 more netting days planned in 2018. It would be good to compare the different inlets. Obviously we need to repeat this research to annalyse trends.
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Boka Grandi Day 1
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Boka Grandi Day 2
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