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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

Asociaci

Aristóteles, 3, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

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WWW Link: http://www.chelonia.es

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Asociación Chelonia is a non-profit organization founded in 1997 dedicated to the conservation of the natural resources and threatened species and ecosystems, and to the promotion of sustainable human development. Its scientific research is based on building up knowledge and promoting the conservation of threatened species, mainly of turtles, crocodilians and sharks. Moreover the organization´s experimental research supports the balanced exploitation of natural resources, and the mitigation of the bycatch.

With regards to sea turtle conservation, the organization is working on the testing of the Turtle Excluder Devices in the shrimp trawl fisheries of the Spanish Atlantic and Mediterranean. Additionally, Chelonia researchers are evaluating and monitoring sea turtle bycatch in the Spanish Atlantic and Mediterranean longline, trawl and tuna trap fisheries, and are involved in the training and awareness-raising of both the fishing sector and civil society.

Moreover, Chelonia is supporting a local initiative consisting in the conservation, monitoring and management of sea turtles and their nesting habitat in a regional protected area of the Colombian Caribbean. The activities carried out have included ecotourism training and capacity building, management and awareness-raising.

Organization Type: Non-profit

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

Submitted: 2014-05-12 03:42:40
Last Modified: 2014-05-12 12:57:31

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