Satellite Tracking
A project of Marine Turtle Research Group in conjunction with the partners and sponsors detailed below.
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| Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green Turtles |
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| Name | Species | Life Stage | Release Date | Last Location | Days Transmitted |
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| Ziggi | Loggerhead | adult | 2009-05-28 | 2010-07-26 | 424 |
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| Betzet | Loggerhead | Adult | 2010-06-23 | 2010-08-09 | 47 |
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| Haifa | Loggerhead | adult | 2008-07-19 | 2009-11-05 | 474 |
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| Baraka | Loggerhead | adult | 2009-02-22 | 2009-08-21 | 180 |
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| Eve (Hava) | Green Turtle | Adult | 2008-07-29 | 2008-08-19 | 21 |
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| Scarlet (Argaman) | Loggerhead | Adult | 2009-07-08 | 2010-06-01 | 328 |
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| Ashkelon | Green Turtle | adult | 2009-06-27 | 2009-08-21 | 55 |
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| Cinderella | Loggerhead | Adult | 2009-07-05 | 2009-12-31 | 179 |
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| Forrest | Loggerhead | Adult | 2010-04-27 | 2010-09-01 | 127 |
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| Sharon | Green Turtle | Adult | 2009-06-20 | 2010-06-09 | 354 |
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Introduction
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Israel National Nature and Parks Authority (INNPA) conducts a management plan for sea turtles since the 1980s. During more than 20 years, rangers are surveying the Mediterranean coasts, tracking, protecting and relocating loggerhead and green turtles' nests into hatcheries in coastal nature reserves. The hatcheries are protected and during the hatching season, the hatchlings are released by the help of rangers and volunteers.
More than 50,000 hatchlings were released so far.
In 1999 INNPA established a sea turtle rescue center and every year dozens of wounded turtles are rehabilitated and more than 60% are released back to the wild. The turtles suffer from various injuries that result from fishing activity, pollution, plastic debris etc'. One part of the rescue center’s work is raising a breeding stock of green sea turtles. Their offspring will be released to the sea from the hatcheries.
An additional activity of the INNPA is sampling stranded sea turtle carcasses in order to collect different data, such as genetic information, population size and distribution.
All of the above information is included in a research program based in the Israeli Sea Turtle Rescue Center. The sea turtles are considered as an umbrella species therefore, the management plan activities, the research and the conclusions help us as a tool in declaring nature reserves and in raising pubic awareness through the media and guided tours.
- The presentation of data here does not constitute publication. All data remain copyright of the project partners. Maps or data on this website may not be used or referenced without explicit written consent.
- For more information please visit the project website.
- If you have questions or would like to request the use of maps or data for this project please contact yanivlevy@yahoo.com.
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