Through the Torres Strait Dugong and Turtle Project, the Torres Strait Regional Authority's (TSRA) Land and Sea Management Unit (LSMU) have been supporting Traditional Owners on the Islands of Badu, Boigu, Erub, Iama, Mabuiag, Mer, Horn and St Pauls, to strengthen their capacity to sustainably manage their dugong and turtle fisheries.

The TSRA Dugong and Turtle Project is part of a north Australia-wide project coordinated by the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA), and funded by the Natural Heritage Trust.  More »

The World Wildlife Fund has announced the launch of a new webpage focussing on "Adaptation to Climate change in marine turtles" to consolidate ideas and understanding about the effects of climate change in relation to marine turtles. According to the WWF news release, the website has been set up to share information and results that came out of a workshop held in December 2007 to discuss the current state of information about climate change and marine turtles, and to attempt to address adaptation measures that could be implemented to mitigate the negative effects of climate change.

While the project appears to focus particularly on hawksbill turtles of the Caribbean, its methodogy and findings will certainly be of much wider interest, including to countries of the IOSEA region. More »

For the past two years, the Torres Strait Regional Authority’s (TSRA) Land and Sea Management Unit (LSMU) has been working with eight Torres Strait Island communities on the Torres Strait Dugong and Turtle Project.

The TSRA Dugong and Turtle Project is part of a north Australia-wide project coordinated by the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA), and funded by the Natural Heritage Trust.  More »

For as long as the IOSEA website has been tracking news headlines, marine turtles of the Indian state of Orissa have probably been featured more frequently than any other single issue over the past several years. More specifically, a search of the IOSEA archives for “Dhamra port” using the built-in search tool yields dozens of stories, dating back to 2004, about this controversial development project.

In brief, concern has been expressed that the project would create a major port facility, and result in ancillary industrial development, within 5 km of a national park and close to some of Orissa’s world-renowned turtle nesting beaches. More »

During the "sustainable development week", 1-7 April 2008, Kélonia held a training session for eight eco-guides from the Departmental Collective of Mayotte and one from Iranja Lodge, a hotel resort in the south of Nosy Be in Madagascar.

The trainees are working at protected sites in Mayotte and Madagascar to assist tourists and visitors who come to discover the stunning sight of nesting sea turtles. During the week-long seminar, they learned basic knowledge about sea turtles of the South-Western Indian Ocean, studied the place of sea turtles in human societies, and discovered projects on sea turtles and valuation of habitats.  More »