Satellite Tracking
A project of the Marine Turtle Research Group in conjunction with the partners and sponsors detailed below.
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| Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 2006: Loggerhead Turtles |
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| Name | Species | Life Stage | Release Date | Last Location | Days Transmitted |
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| Sal | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-19 | 2007-08-22 | 368 |
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| Bailey Ariel Sunshine | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-21 | 2007-07-14 | 327 |
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| Santiago | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-22 | 2006-09-18 | 27 |
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| Maggie Marine | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-25 | 2009-10-09 | 1141 |
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| Fortunata | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-17 | 2006-08-29 | 12 |
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| Santo Antao | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-19 | 2006-12-19 | 122 |
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| Boavista | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-27 | 2006-11-03 | 68 |
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| Fogo | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-09-05 | 2008-01-20 | 502 |
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| Sao Vicente | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-09-03 | 2008-03-23 | 567 |
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| Brava | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-18 | 2007-01-12 | 147 |
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| Branco | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-26 | 2007-04-01 | 218 |
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| Sao Nicolau | Loggerhead | Adult | 2006-08-30 | 2007-06-11 | 285 |
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Introduction
Following successful deployments of tags on nesting adult female loggerheads from Cape Verde in 2004 and 2005, the team will be deploying a further 10 transmitters on nesting loggerheads at Boavista in August and September 2006. Results of our first 2 years of tracking have showed that the Cape Verde nesting population has an unusually wide spread of sizes of mature animals, and that these animals appear to use very different foraging areas and patterns after they finish nesting at leave Cape Verde. We hope to investigate the split in the size groups that perform these different patterns with this years tags.
Project Partners
This satellite tracking project is a collaboration among the Marine Turtle Research Group (Brendan Godley, Annette Broderick, Lucy Hawkes), SEATURTLE.ORG (Michael Coyne, Matthew Godfrey) and the Universidad Las Palmas, Canary Islands (Luis Felipe Lopez Jurado, Nuria Varo, Pedro Lopez-Suarez). The ongoing turtle monitoring and conservation project is being supported by "Hydrocarpo", an Interreg IIIB project (UE) ; a Canarian and Cape Verde Government
initiative implemented by the Cape Verde Instituto Nacional Desenvolvimento Las Pescas and the Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas , Canary islands (Spain).
Noting the regional importance of this work, WWF-WARPO are working with project partners to help the project disseminate its findings to maximum effect.
- 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 bgodley@seaturtle.org.
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