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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

Honu Cook Islands

Main Road, Omoka, Tongareva Atoll, Cook Islands

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Research group of Dr Michael White: Principal Investigator for sea turtles in the Cook Islands. ‘Honu’ consists of local researchers and Island Councils, but with links to the Ministry of Marine Resources and National Environment Service;: we have permission to work throughout the archipelago (2 million sq km); since 2009 we have visited 9 of the 15 islands in our nation. A baseline survey was completed on Rakahanga in 2012 and in-water and nesting surveys at Tongareva and Palmerston Atolls. We have strong links with four universities and their higher degree programmes. We work closely with the CI Ministry of Education and have taught in several schools: we have ongoing fieldwork with Omoka School. We contribute data to the National Biodiversity Assessment; Pacific Regional databases (e.g. TREDS & SWOT) and participate in collaborative genetic and tagging studies. Dr White recently published 3 papers for the Cook Islands, the first in decades. Our speciality is remote atoll research (coastline, nesting, biodiversity, and underwater surveys). Traditional Management of natural resources is the main approach of our work and we build capacity in locally-meaningful ways: every atoll is different!

Organization Type: Academic, Governmental, Non-governmental

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

Submitted: 2012-08-08 00:01:35
Last Modified: 2014-10-06 13:25:29

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