The educational project “Sea turtles, children and local colors” launched in Moorea two months ago by 'Te mana o te moana' and the Mediterranean sea turtle research and conservation center (CESTMed) culminated successfully on World Ocean Day.

Students from Afareaitu High School have been communicating by various means with students from Aigued Mortes High School in metropolitan France for two months. They have collected information on sea turtles in their regions, on relations between children and turtles, and then compared their ways of life. More »

The Torres Strait Regional Authority's (TSRA) Land and Sea Management Unit (LSMU) is supporting eight Torres Strait Island Communities in a Dugong and Marine Turtle Project which aims to assist indigenous Australians to become more involved in the sustainable management of dugong and marine turtle.

The project is one of a number of projects coordinated by the North Australia Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance (NAILSMA) and has five regional partners located in areas from the Kimberly to Torres Strait.  More »

On 5 June 2008 the Kélonia team, together with a 6th grade class (10 children) from Lapierre School in Saint Louis, released a green turtle into the sea. This event took place as part of the World Ocean Days, which in Réunion are co-jointly organized by the Lions Club and Kélonia.

The turtle was named Corallien by these young enthusiasts, who have participated in a sensitizing project about the conservation of marine turtles and their habitats since the beginning of their school year. Corallien is a young male with a mass and size of 83 kg and 99 cm, respectively and was born in 1991 on the island of Tromelin. After 18 years spent in the pools of Kélonia, he returned to sea as part of a reintroduction program, carefully watched by his young protectors and trainers. More »

Sam Weru reports on a new initiative by the Marine Programme of WWF in Kenya to conserve East Africa's green turtles, aided by satellite tracking.

Referred to as the Kenya Integrated Turtle Conservation Programme (KIST-Con), WWF will up-scale its marine turtle conservation initiatives in the Kiunga Marine National Reserve (KMNR) project, which works to protect sea turtles at sea and on nesting beaches.

This will involve the installation of at least five satellite transmitters (Sirtrack Kiwisat 101 PTT) on sea turtles, which will accurately record global positioning among other inferred data. More »

Based on information received from villagers, Bali Marine Police confiscated seven live Green (Chelonia mydas) turtles at Kedonganan Beach Badung region, Bali, Indonesia. The confiscation action was taken on 31 May 2008 between 2 – 3 a.m.

According to the Indonesian NGO ProFauna, the sea turtles come from East Java, brought by small fisherman boat as camouflage. Two men in their early 40s were arrested.

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