The IOSEA Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding is an intergovernmental agreement that aims to protect, conserve, replenish and recover marine turtles and their habitats of the Indian Ocean and South-East Asian region, working in partnership with other relevant actors and organisations.
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24 January 2012 |
India: Olive Ridleys' nesting site under threat
Shifting of river mouth and erosion have changed the terrain of the nesting beach of Olive Ridley turtles near the Rushikulya rookery in Ganjam district of Odisha. |
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MESSAGE BOARD |
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| The IOSEA regional marine turtle meeting kicks off in Bangkok on Monday! A fabulous venue in the heart of the city has been selected for the meeting, which runs from 23 to 27 January. On the last day, participants will be treated to a visit to Koh Mannai (Island) in the Gulf of Thailand, home to a decades-long turtle conservation programme.
Delegates from nearly 30 countries from all around the Indian Ocean and South-east Asia are expected to attend the gathering -- focussed entirely on marine turtle conservation. The varied agenda will include an amazingly thorough analysis of IOSEA's performance, a review of leatherback and loggerhead species assessments, the highly anticipated endorsement of a plan to create a regional marine turtle site network, and exchange of ideas for enhancing technical support and training for member States.
Two special workshops and a number of invited presentations will round out the 4-day agenda. One workshop will try to make sense of the enormous effort that has gone into satellite tracking in and around the IOSEA region over the last two decades; while the second will look at the timely subject of climate change impacts on marine turtles and related mitigation strategies.
All of meeting documents and an 'Information Note for Participants' can be found in the Meetings Section of the website.
Meeting Schedule:
21-22 January (Saturday/Sunday): IOSEA Advisory Committee
23-26 January (Monday -Thursday): IOSEA SS6 meeting
27 January (Friday): 'Study tour’ to Koh Mannai, organised in cooperation with Thailand's Department of Marine and Coastal Resources More » |
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|  A baseline report on Marine Turtle Status for the Northeast Semporna Priority Conservation Area (PCA), Sabah was published few months ago. This report resulted from an assessment carried out by a WWF-Malaysia Semporna PCA team, in cooperation with resort operators and island communities on six islands.
The Semporna PCA spans the seas around Semporna and contains the largest concentration of coral reefs in Malaysia, recognised as a Globally Outstanding PCA within the Sulu-Sulawesi Marine Ecoregion (SSME), at the apex of the Coral Triangle. The area is frequently used as a migratory pathway by marine turtles. Despite their abundance, their status is largely unknown and is limited to only few studies. It is hoped this report will provide a good reference point for those working on turtle issues in Sabah, and other parts of the world. More »
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|  The Secretariat is pleased to announce that Malaysia has joined the IOSEA Marine Turtle MoU, making it the 33nd IOSEA Signatory State. The Honourable Dato’ Ahamad Sabki bin Mahmood, Director-General of the Department of Fisheries Malaysia, signed the agreement on 19 September 2011 in Putrajaya (Kuala Lumpur), before dozens of interested observers. Malaysia is arguably the birthplace of the Indian Ocean – South-East Asian Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding, for it was in the coastal city of Kuantan that the text of the IOSEA agreement was negotiated and finally concluded in July 2000. More »
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|  On this day precisely 10 years ago -- 1 September 2001 -- the Indian Ocean – South-East Asia Marine Turtle Memorandum of Understanding took effect for the original nine IOSEA Signatory States: Australia, Comoros, Islamic Republic of Iran, Myanmar, Philippines, Sri Lanka, United Republic of Tanzania, United States of America, and Viet Nam.
Over the following decade, another 23 countries across this vast region have joined the extended family. Today, IOSEA boasts the widest geographic coverage and governmental membership of any instrument for marine turtle conservation in the world. More »
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|  A festival to raise awareness of sea turtle conservation has been organised in the Velondriake Locally-Managed Marine Area (LMMA) in southwest Madagascar. The two-week festival, held in May and June, built on the success of the 2010 "Vezo Aho" ("I am Vezo") campaign, which aimed to combat the use of destructive fishing methods in the region. This year's turtle festival used the same information collection techniques developed in ‘Vezo Aho’ in order to create targeted conservation messages aimed to bring about behaviour change in turtle fishing practices. More »
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