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Turtles

Turtle research and conservation

Nature Foundation St. Maarten

St. Maarten

The Nature Foundation located on the island of Sint Maarten, in the heart of the Caribbean, aims to preserve and enhance the natural environment of St. Maarten in the present moment and for generations to come through a variety of education, preservation, and research initiatives. This includes their most prominent protected area, the Man of War Shoal Marine Park as well as several ongoing projects to strengthen the resilience of our ecosystems and native wildlife. Their research and monitoring projects range from sea turtle conservation to water quality testing and shark tagging, and they actively promote environmental awareness in the community and teach the value of nature and sustainability in local schools.

Nature Seekers

Trinidad and Tobago

Nature Seekers is a community-based organization founded in 1990 with the aim of protecting leatherback turtles in Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to the protection of nesting turtles, they are involved in research, including tagging and monitoring turtles, and educating the public about marine issues. They are known for their Ecotours which focus on the leatherback turtles.

Nature Trust Malta

Malta

Nature Trust (Malta) is one of the oldest non-governmental organisations dealing with the natural environment in the Maltese Islands. Their main focus is on site management of natural areas, environmental education and lobbying for effective environmental legislation. They are also involved in the Rescue of injured marine turtles and stranded dolphins. NTM has a team of dedicated rescue volunteers all professionally trained.

Nevis Turtle Group

St Kitts & Nevis


NTG is dedicated to the development of a sea turtle conservation program for Nevis that involves local communities, and ensure that sea turtles will survive. NTG volunteers help monitoring the nesting beaches on Nevis, working at night on beaches around Nevis to tag sea turtles and collect information about the nesting and movement of Nevis’ sea turtles. Additional information, such as levels of nest predation and poaching are collected during morning surveys. NTG also gives presentations about sea turtles at local schools and works to involve children in sea turtle related activities. Member of Widecast.

New York Marine Rescue Center

USA

The New York Marine Rescue Center is a rescue and rehabilitation organization that promotes marine conservation. They work to preserve and protect the marine environment through conservation efforts including rescue, rehabilitation, education and research, and are the primary responders for sick or injured seals, sea turtles, dolphins, porpoises and small toothed whales, and maintain the only marine mammal and sea turtle rehabilitation center in New York State.

Ocean Spirits

Grenada

Ocean Spirits is a registered, non-profit marine conservation organisation based in Grenada, focused primarily on the conservation of marine turtles. Their projects involve research on the local turtle populations with the aim to protect them, education and engagement with the local community in order to sustain the turtle populations and to combat turtle egg harvesting. Ecotourism forms part in their conservation initiatives.

Ocearch

USA

Ocearch is conducting unprecedented research on sharks in order to help scientists collect previously unattainable data in the ocean. They achieve this through research expeditions, education and media. Their research expeditions are conducted aboard the M/V OCEARCH, which serves as an at-sea laboratory. Their OCEARCH GLOBAL SHARK TRACKER demonstrates the results of their tracking research on sharks (and some turtles). They have developed an OCEARCH STEM SKILLS curriculum for students, and use multimedia to inform and educate about shark science, in support of their goal to returning the ocean ‘balance and abundance’.

Olive Ridley Project : protecting turtles in the Indian Ocean

Maldives

The Olive Ridley Project protects sea turtles and their habitats in the Indian Ocean through rescue and rehabilitation of injured sea turtles, research and education, removal of ghost gear from the ocean, and by working to reduce and reuse ghost gear. The ORP Marine Turtle Rescue Centre provides veterinarian care and rehabilitation to injured marine turtles rescued across the Maldives.

Pro Natura Peninsula de Yucatan

Mexico

Pronatura is a Mexican non-profit civil organization which works on environmental issues through regional offices, including the one in the Yucatan Peninsula (PPY). PPY works on various forms of conservation and sustainable use of natural resources in priority areas of the Yucatan Peninsula, including marine projects focusing on the protection of whale sharks and turtles,

ProTECTOR

Honduras

ProTECTOR Inc. aims to expand understanding of sea turtle biology and ecology through research, in the country of Honduras. They oversee the establishment, continuance and completion of numerous sea turtle research and outreach projects in Honduras, with the aim of facilitating better decision-making for marine area management, as well as awareness of sea turtles on the part of both local residents and the visiting public. They are a member of WIDECAST.

Projeto Chelonia Mydas

Brazil

Projeto Chelonia mydas monitors the pollutants' impact on Brazilian sea-turtles. Under the auspices of Instituto Marcus Daniel (IMD), the project studies the processes and the occurrence of sea-turtle's diseases in environments affected by men, with the aim of understanding the occurrence of diseases in the sea-turtle populations in Brazil. Projeto Chelonia mydas' activities involve studies on sea-turtle's ecology, ecotoxicology, epidemiology, pathology, hematology, plasma biochemistry, and immunology.

Projeto TAMAR

Brazil

TAMAR Project (an abbreviation of Tartarugas Marinhas, the Sea Turtles) is a Brazilian non-profit organization owned by the Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation. The main objective of the project is to protect sea turtles from extinction in the Brazilian coastline. The project has since expanded to include protection of sharks and all the sea wildlife that are part of the environment in which the sea turtles live.

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