NEWS
The Second turtle arrived at Sfax first aid center!
In the frame of the Life Medturtles project: Arrival of the Second loggerhead turtle "MALEK" at the first aid center at the Sfax Faculty of Sciences. We are grateful to the fisherman who brought the turtle after its accidental capture in his net. We would like also...
Beginning of sea turtle’s nesting season 2021
Starting the 2021 public awareness campaign to increase the detection and protection of loggerhead sea turtle nests in the Spain's Mediterranean coast, in collaboration with the local government of the Valencia region and NGO...
Sayda, the firts sea turtles recovered at the new first aid center of Sfax (Tunisia)
As a result of the awareness campaign carried out with fishermen by FSS in Tunisia, the first loggerhead turtle "Sayda" arrived at the new first aid center (created as part of Life Medturtles Project) where will receive all the necessary care, after being...
Awareness campaign with fishermen in Tunisia!
Awareness campaign and distribution of T-shirts, posters, and fisher kits to fishermen and menders at the port of Chebba in the frame of the Life MedTurtles project funded by the European Union and coordinated in Tunisia by the Sfax Faculty of Sciences. ...
First in-person meeting with fishermen in Tunisia!
The FSS first organized meeting with the fishermen of Chebba on 04/04/2021. A meeting with fruitful discussions and a lot of optimism and encouragement for the implementation of project actions. The team warmly thank all the fishermen who were present, the dean of...
Our partner in Tunisia also placed collection bins for ghost gear at Chebba port!
Placement of fins for collecting ghost gears in the port of Chebba. Thanks to the delegate of the city and to the captain of the port for their support and commitment.
PSCA will start the placement of Collection Boxes for ghost nets in Turkey (see video)!
Our future should not be caught in fishing nets! Ghost nets in the sea pose a major threat to marine life. Many species, especially sea turtles, get injured or even die by getting caught in ghost nets. In collaboration with fisheries cooperatives and diving...
Fondazione Cetacea fishermen interview campaign!
In early June 2020 Fondazione Cetacea, partner of the Life Medturtles project started its interview campaign for the collections of important data on the current panorama of the sea turtle population in the Adriatic Sea with fishermen operating in 9 target ports,...
PSCA continue the detection of ghost nets in Turkey!
Our project partner PSCA-DEKAMER is continuing discovery dives for detection #ghostnets in different coastal areas in Turkey. The team is also collecting abandoned longlines and marine litter in discovery dives. [video width="1270" height="720"...
Implementation of a first aid center for sea turtles in Sfax
Preparations for the first aid center for marine turtles at the Faculty of Sciences of Sfax as part of the Lifemedturtles project pending the official inauguration...
Stranded of loggerhead sea turtles in Tunisia
The Life MedTurtles Tunisia team moved today to the beach of Sidi Hmed Absa to examine the stranding of a fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) and a loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta) in order to take the necessary samples. The information was received from a...
Network of sea turtles in Tunisia
In order to foster the national stranding network of sea turtles in Tunisia, a technical meeting was held on November 26th 2020 between the main National Partners. The discussion focused on the next steps to be followed based on successful synergies between the...
Another two loggerhead turtles released!
On the morning of 26th November 2020, Fondazione Cetacea brought back into the sea two turtles, Giuseppe and Alessandra. The first one is a young Caretta caretta recovered on 20 August 2020 by ENPA Lagosanto, which form Delta Rescue association, together with...
eTurtle App presentation
Within the framework of the Life Medturtles project, it was made an online meeting with the partner associations of the "SeaTuMed" Program, to present and promote the "eTurtle" application developed by the Life Euroturtles project. Thank you to all who were present...
Continues the interviews to fishermen in Spain
UVEG team continues the interviews to fishermen of the Valencia Region. This time in Gandía (Valencia) with fisherwomen (Dones de Tramuntana)
Golia’s transmitter still working!!
Golia on October 19 transmitted from Greece, and more precisely from Corfu. More than a year after Golia's release in Riccione (Italy), the transmitter continues to work!
Informative video about MedTurtles activities performed by Sfax Faculty of Sciences (Tunisia)
Sfax Faculty of Sciences (Tunisian partner of the Life MedTurtles project financed by the EU) : a video providing a brief idea about the Life Medturtles project and summarizing the work of the interviewers carried out in the main ports of the Gulf of Gabès...
Ghost net scanning activity in Turkey
LIFE Medturtles partner DEKAMER continues to negotiate with fishermens and underwater #GhostNet scanning and detection work has begun with...
Dermochelys coriacea captured accidentally in Kerkennah Island (Tunisia)
A Dermochelys coriacea was captured accidentally in Kerkennah island (Tunisia). FSS LifeMedturtles team was present to assist the necropsy and take measurements. ...
Release of six sea turtles into the Adriatic Sea, Rimini (Italy)
Yesterday, inside the public awareness action of the LIFE MEDTURTLES PROJECT, six sea turtles, recovered and rehabilitated by Fondazione Cetacea, were released at the coast of Rimini (Italy). This action involves the organization of public events, such releases, to...
Recovery of abandoned longline during fieldwork in Turkey
DEKAMER team is removing an abandoned longline from the sea during fieldwork. Abandoned fishing lines, ghost nets, and marine debris have a huge impact on marine life. Many creatures, including sea turtles, marine mammals, and birds, are entangled in these gears,...
Campaign of interviews with fishermen in Valencia Region
The UVEG team started the campaign of interviews to fishermen in the Valencia Region (East Spain). Great success reaching >80% of the fleet of one of the biggest ports in Alicante province, Santa Pola, with more than 50 trawlers and a big number of small...
Started in-water studies to understand the interactions between sea turtles and fisheries in Turkey
DEKAMER started in-water studies to understand the interactions between sea turtles and fisheries. They will work closely with fishermen within the LIFE MEDTURTLES project in the coming years.
UVEG closed an amazing nesting season in Spain’s Mediterranean coasts
We close an amazing nesting season in Spain's Mediterranean coasts with the study, by the UVEG team, of the nest laid in Cullera (Valencia) in July. About 10 nests and more than 20 nesting events, two nesting females tagged, many hatchlings released, and other to...
Loggerhead turtle hatchlings found in Murcia
Last Friday 11, the UVEG team moved to Murcia region (south of Valencia region) to assist regional authorities in the search of a loggerhead turtle nest in the beach where 2 hatchlings were found a week ago. We succeed by finding the nest, with other two live...
Tracking loggerhead turtles in Spain
Last July, the UVEG team, in collaboration with other Institutions, was able to tag a loggerhead nesting in Cullera (Valencia). As revealed by the track, the turtle went south, out of the region, trying to nest (without success) in Andalucia beaches (south Spain)....
Introductory meeting of project Life Medturtles and the work packages (Turkey)
Last week, DEKAMER held the introductory meeting of our project called Life MEDTURTLES and introduced the work packages. After the meeting, along with the field studies, we created public awareness by attaching the satellite tags to the sea turtles and releasing...
News about the sea turtle Golia route
The sea turtle Golia, released by Fondazione Cetacea in Riccione last October after an accidental catch in a fishing net, is spending the summer near the coasts of Emilia Romagna region, in the North Adriatic sea.
SEA TURTLE ALERT
The new campaign by Xaloc NGO and UVEG team to detect and protect hatchlings emerged from undetected nests over the season in East Spain. The time for the hatching of the possible nets of sea turtles no detected begins now. They usually hatch during the night,...
The UVEG team (Spain), in collaboration with other institutions, managed to tag two loggerhead turtles nesting in the Spanish coast this summer. Below the tracks so far. This action, with the support of the Spanish Ministry of Ecological Transition and the...
A NEST OF LOGGERHEAD TURTLE IN CULLERA, VALENCIA!
Another nest in Spain. This time close to Valencia, at the beach of Cap Blanc, Cullera (Valencia Province). Last early morning a sport fisherman activated the nesting protocol calling the 112 to report the presence of a sea turtle. UVEG team (Universitat de...
The release of Allegra, within the project Life Medturtles
The release of Allegra, within the project Life Medturtles, in collaboration with the Coast Guard, recovered in Chioggia by WWF Veneto and cured at the clinic of Dr. Luciano Tarricone in Polesella and then at our CRTM in Riccione. Its return to the sea is the...
One more nest in Spain
UVEG team moved to La Manga del Mar Menor, in Murcia province, to assist local authorities in the finding and relocation of eggs. In situ incubation was dismissed due to the proximity of the clutch to the sea, in a very narrow and highly visited beach with...
Campaign for detection of loggerhead turtle nests in Spain
More on the campaign for detection of loggerhead turtle nests in...
Implement sea turtle conservation in the Ferrara area (Italy)
DelTa Rescue is a working group that includes several associations and organizations in the Ferrara area (Emilia Romagna - North Adriatic - Italy) in order to rescue sea turtles and implement species conservation. Over 120 people participated last year in two...
BREAKING NEWS
News from the GSM transmitter of Golia, an adult male from Caretta caretta long more than 70 cm of carapace, released last October 24th after a short period of hospitalization in the Marine Turtle Recovery Center in Riccione of Fondazione Cetacea: Golia, after...
Campaign to protection of sea turtles nests on the beaches of Valencia
The COVID19 situation has delayed several actions of the project LIFE MEDTURTLES in Spain, but linked to the improvement of the situation we are moving forward. Starting to put in place the campaign designed by XALOC and the UVEG team (Universitat de València -...
NEW NESTING ATTEMPT BY A LOGGERHEAD TURTLE IN CALA DE LAS ESTACAS (ORIHUELA)
The second in the Valencia Region and the fifth nesting event in the Spanish Mediterranean this season. Yesterday night, a family was taking a walk at 1 a.m. by the promenade of La Cala de las Estacas, then they witnessed the nesting attempt of a loggerhead turtle...
Loggerhead sea turtle adult female released at Riccione’s beach
Our Italian partner Fondazione Cetacea released today a sea turtle on Riccione's beach. Since the beginning of the year, Fondazione Cetacea has released 7 adult turtles after recovery and cares in the Sea Turtles Rescue Center. All these turtle releases have been...
Meeting at the Port of Shëngjin – Albania
Our Albanian LIFEMEDTURTLES partner Herpetofauna Albanian Society held today a meeting at the Port of Shëngjin for the implementation of the act. C6 which aims the reduction of the impact of the ghost gears in sea turtles....
UVEG social media campaign
Today, the UVEG team and the NGO XALOC release the social media campaign aimed at increasing the loggerhead sea turtle nesting reports in our coasts, and also with the objective of informing how to act in case someone finds a turtles nesting on the beach. This is...
Start of the loggerhead nesting season in Albania
Our partner announced the start of the loggerhead nesting season in Albania. The first nest was recorded on June 8th at Semani beach, an area with no previous nesting...
NESTING SEASON ALSO STARTED IN SPAIN.
First loggerhead turtle track in a beach of Barcelona province (Northeast Spain). Lets...
Loggerhead sea turtle Golia
Golia is already reversing its course and is heading towards the Adriatic Sea!
News from the male loggerhead sea turtle Golia
Almost 7 months after having been released, the sea turtle Golia has been transmitting from the Greek coasts.
First Loggerhead turtle nest of the Mediterranean 2020
Our project partner Dekamer recorded the first Loggerhead turtle nest of the season this morning in Dalyan beach, Turkey.
Vehicle and laptops were purchased and a solar power system was established
PSCA-DEKAMER is one of the partners of LIFE MEDTURTLE project. They have been preparing the project equipment, documents, and planning the field studies since the start of the project. So far, two project assistants have joined the DEKAMER team, a vehicle and...
First record of a nesting activity of a Green Sea Turtle in Tunisia.
The video of hatchlings after emergency. ...
THE SEA TURTLE GOLIA IS MOVING SOUTH
The sea turtle Golia, released by Fondazione Cetacea in Riccione last October, is moving...
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