The African Turtle Newsletter

ATN: Tales from Ghana

Sun, 10 Dec 2006 08:26:31 +0000

Phil Allman is on a Fulbright Scholarship to Ada Foah in Ghana to establish a sea turtle conservation program. When Phil arrived in Ada Foah, he was told by a local fisherman “in small time, the wind will change, the sea will calm, and many turtles will come.” Sure enough, the turtles are coming in to nest and Phil is keeping very busy! To find out more about the life and adventures of Phil and his wife Karyn in Ada Foah visit their website for blogs and photos: Ghana Turtles.

ATN: Atelier à Laayoune

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:42:24 +0000

Rapport de l’atelier de formation sur l’étude des tortues marines à Laayoune, Maroc

Wafae Benhardouze et Mustapha Aksissou
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, PO Box 2121, Tetouan 93002, Morocco

ATN: Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

Wed, 21 Jun 2006 20:21:16 +0000

Caldera Expedition 2006
Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea

Submitted by Heidi A. Rader
Arcadia University, USA
2006 Caldera Expedition Participant

3 Weeks

11 Species of primates

4 Species of nesting sea turtles

13 Hours by plane from the United States

3 Days journey overland from the nearest traffic light

1 Unspoiled virgin wilderness

ATN: Atelier à Casa

Fri, 19 May 2006 07:34:43 +0000

Rapport de l’atelier de formation sur l’étude des tortues marines à Casablanca, Maroc
Wafae Benhardouze et Mustapha Aksissou
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, PO Box 2121, Tetouan 93002, Morocco

ATN: Africa Regional Meeting in Crete

Tue, 02 May 2006 21:18:27 +0000

Manjula Tiwari

ATN: All About KESCOM

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 00:59:38 +0000

THE KENYA SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE (KESCOM)

Compiled by David Olendo & Andrew Wamukota

ATN: Atelier au Maroc

Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:23:17 +0000

African Turtle Newsletter: L’atelier de formation sur l’étude des tortues marines au Maroc

Wafae Benhardouze et Mustapha Aksissou
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, PO Box 2121, Tetouan 93002, Morocco

(ENGLISH SUMMARY AT VERY END)

African Turtle Newsletter: MTCA in Gabon

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:10:57 +0000

For a long time now many of us have been discussing the need for a newsletter on sea turtle research and conservation in the African continent. The Kudu Newsletter for Atlantic Africa had a rather short lifespan because the effort and sweat that went into compiling information and producing a newsletter became rather daunting for anyone to undertake and sustain. Now, thanks to the support and encouragement from Michael Coyne, we have a blog page for Africa which will serve as the African Turtle Newsletter. We hope that people working on sea turtles on this extraordinary continent will share their stories, opinions, concerns, and projects with the rest of the sea turtle community through this online "newsletter." We will encourage submissions in different languages—French, English, Spanish, Portuguese—so that all feel welcome to share their news and views.

As the opening piece to this newsletter, I thought I would share some recent, important developments in Gabon, which supports one of the largest leatherback nesting beaches in the world along with the Guianas, and introduce you to some of the important players in this country.

Manjula