The aim of the project in to improve the conservation status of the EU populations of two sea turtle priority species, the loggerhead turtle Caretta Caretta and the green turtle Chelonia Mydas.
The fishermen that our project partner DEKAMER provides training and surveys about sea turtles, protects sea turtles. We would like to thank the fisherman Mr. Hasan for saving the Caretta caretta from the trawl net of the Molakadir boat in Çanakkale and release back...
One of the project activities is to investigate if the current practices (for trawlers) are really the best ones to reduce sea turtle’s post-release mortality. To this aim, the staff from UNIPI has just started a survivorship study: turtles accidentally captured...
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