Maya_80

Tracking small loggerheads from spanish nests

A project of Seguimiento de juveniles de Tortuga boba.

click map for full-size version Maya_80 (Loggerhead) is 62 km N off the coast of Algeria and 151 km from Algiers

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Species: Loggerhead
Life Stage: small juvenile
Gender: Unknown
Release Date: 2015-09-14 15:30:00
Release Location: Santa Pola
Last Location: 2015-10-27 13:06:55

Background

Turtle born in 2014 in Spain: The original nest was found at a touristic beach in Alicnte and translocated by researchers from the University of Valencia to a natural beach in El Saler (Valencia). The nest was custodied by volunteers until and the neonates were taken to the recovery center ARCA del Mar, at the Ocenogr�fic de Valencia.