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SCDNR Marine Turtle Conservation Program The SCDNR Marine Turtle Conservation Program is responsible for managing and protecting sea turtles in the state of South Carolina, USA. This program has several all encompassing components: management, monitoring, research, and education. More specifically this program provides technical expertise on anthropogenic activities that have the potential to impact sea turtles (i.e., nourishment, dredging), locates and protects sea turtle nests (~300 km of coastline), documents strandings, performs necropsies on fresh dead strandings, works with the SC Aquarium to provide rehablitation for live strandings, monitors nearshore waters for leatherbacks, and provides as much education, outreach and exchange of scientific information as time allows. Working with sea turtles since 2000

Group Profile

SCDNR Marine Turtle Conservation Program

The SCDNR Marine Turtle Conservation Program is responsible for managing and protecting sea turtles in the state of South Carolina, USA. This program has several all encompassing components: management, monitoring, research, and education. More specifically this program provides technical expertise on anthropogenic activities that have the potential to impact sea turtles (i.e., nourishment, dredging), locates and protects sea turtle nests (~300 km of coastline), documents strandings, performs necropsies on fresh dead strandings, works with the SC Aquarium to provide rehablitation for live strandings, monitors nearshore waters for leatherbacks, and provides as much education, outreach and exchange of scientific information as time allows.

Working with sea turtles since 2000

Students' Sea turtle Conservation Network

8/25 2nd Street, D P Nagar, Kotturpuram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Contact:
WWW Link: http://www.sstcn.org

Description:

SSTCN is a voluntary non funded group comprising mostly of senior school and college students and a few working people from different walks of life.

The group's main activities are conservation and education.

Through the turtle nesting season, SSTCN volunteers patrol a 7 Km stretch on the Chennai coast collecting olive ridley sea turtle eggs and relocating them in a hatchery, and safely releasing thousands of hatchlings into the sea every year.

Turtle Walks attract School and University students as well as members of the public and serves as a platform for educational and awareness activities.

Organization Type: Non-governmental, Non-profit

Activities: Advocacy, Conservation, Education, Monitoring, Outreach, Research

Submitted: 2009-06-13 06:04:19
Last Modified: 2009-09-27 12:53:43

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Students' Sea turtle Conservation Network

8/25 2nd Street, D P Nagar, Kotturpuram, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India