Kelonia has organised an awareness campaign based on the restoration of a marine turtle nesting site on La Reunion Island, in partnership with the National Botanical Conservatory of Mascarins (NBCM) during the Sustainable Development Week that happened from from the 1st to the 7th of April of this year. More »
The
first-ever sea turtle tracking project
in Bangladesh has been initiated by Marinelife
Alliance. An Olive ridley turtle – named “Urmee”,
which means “wave” in Bangla – was fitted
with a Platform Terminal Transmitter
(PTT) and released into the Bay of Bengal
from Sonadia Island during the evening
of 29 March 2010. The transmitter was
installed during the post-nesting period
to minimize potential interactions with
fishing fleets and to reduce the risk
of the turtle being trapped in fishing
nets. More »
FROM THE SECRETARIAT
We’re
way behind in getting the e-News out this
month, thanks in part to recent mission
commitments and a most unexpected and untimely
problem with part of the IOSEA website,
which we are managing to get on top of.
Our soon-to-be former internet service
provider tried unsuccessfully, for its
own reasons, to migrate the Online Reporting
System to a new server – and we have
been dealing with the repurcussions ever
since. Hopefully everything will be sorted
out in the next week or so.
There are a couple of interesting Features in the pipeline, but they might have
to wait until next month, because a couple of weeks of “R & R” happen
to be the next item on the agenda.
In the meanwhile, we hope you enjoy the Profile of the Month on the recent Sea
Turtle Symposium in Goa which, in the opinion of this writer, was one of the
most interesting in recent years.
MONTHLY ROUND-UP: What you may have missed in April
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Mwana wa Nyamba, newsletter du Parc Marin de Mohéli (N) 2 is available. Please click here to download a pdf version (2.74MB).
The Naucrates times newsletter of April 2010 "Extraordinary sea turtle nesting season" is available. Please click here to download a pdf version (1.60MB).
Kelonia has organised an awareness campaign based on the restoration of a marine turtle nesting site on La Reunion Island, in partnership with the National Botanical Conservatory of Mascarins (NBCM) during the Sustainable Development Week that happened from from the 1st to the 7th of April of this year. 
The
first-ever sea turtle tracking project
in Bangladesh has been initiated by Marinelife
Alliance. An Olive ridley turtle – named “Urmee”,
which means “wave” in Bangla – was fitted
with a Platform Terminal Transmitter
(PTT) and released into the Bay of Bengal
from Sonadia Island during the evening
of 29 March 2010. The transmitter was
installed during the post-nesting period
to minimize potential interactions with
fishing fleets and to reduce the risk
of the turtle being trapped in fishing
nets. 
