Bonaire Sea Turtle Tracking 2004
A project of BONAIRE TURTLE TRACKING PROGRAM in conjunction with the partners and sponsors detailed below.
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| Name | Species | Life Stage | Release Date | Last Location | Days Transmitted |
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| 'Extra' | Loggerhead | Adult | 2004-07-09 | 2004-10-26 | 109 |
| 'Funny' | Hawksbill | Adult | 2004-11-22 | 2005-03-06 | 104 |
| 'STINAPA' | Green Turtle | Adult | 2004-10-31 | 2005-03-08 | 128 |
| 'Tom' | Hawksbill | Adult | 2004-07-13 | 2006-05-11 | 667 |
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Introduction
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Bonaire -part of the Netherlands Antilles- has a small but stable population of sea turtles that visit our island to breed. To find out where these animals live outside of the breeding season, we are placing transmitters onto adult turtles at Klein Bonaire to track them as they swim back to their feeding grounds. From this we hope to learn the geographic range of "our" turtles and highlight the need for regional cooperation in taking measures to protect these magnificent animals.
Project Partners
Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire, local affiliate of the Wider Caribbean Sea Turtle Conservation Network (WIDECAST), has been protecting sea turtles through research, conservation and education since 1991.
Turtle tracking satellite time is partially provided by the Office of Protected Resources (U.S. NMFS, NOAA).
Project Sponsors
Our project is supported by a grant from the Kingdom of the Netherlands, administered through the Netherlands Antilles' Department of Environment & Nature Conservation (MINA), Ministry of Public Health & Social Development
