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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

PRICTMA

Smith 37, Bernal, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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WWW Link: http://www.prictma.com.ar

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Abstract: In 1990 different groups of investigation began their activities along the coast of Buenos Aires Province, monitoring stranding and netting of different Marine Turtles species. In addition, rehabilitation centres specialized in Marine fauna, began to study the medical aspects of rehabilitation of these animals, providing the first pieces of information about the sanitary state of the turtles found on our coasts.
Despite individual efforts of each group, the advance in the biological knowledge about Marine Turtles was slow, making this difficult to find and establish suitable conservation strategies.
In 2000, these groups began to interact and in 2003 they concreted the Regional Program of investigation and conservation of Marine Turtles in Argentine (PRICTMA). Two work meetings were done, where they discussed and worked out a diagnosis report to determinate the present knowledge about the different species of Marine Turtles in Argentine, setting up the basis for the creation of PRICTMA. The main aim of this program is to optimize and to strengthens the information got individually, forming a common pool of Knowledge, that let us make more significant advances in the investigation and conservation of Marine Turtles in Argentine. As well as being able to determinate the existence of feeding areas and establish the concordance with handmade fishing areas activities and commercial trawling on Buenos Aires Coast, to contribute with the Regional efforts for the conservation of Marine Turtles in the South-Western Atlantic Sea.

Organization Type: Non-governmental

Activities: Conservation, Education, Monitoring, Rehabilitation, Research

Submitted: 2008-05-02 19:13:47
Last Modified: 2011-08-17 14:49:57

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