Kelonia has organised an awareness campaign
based on the restoration of a marine turtle
nesting site on La Reunion Island, in partnership
with the National Botanical Conservatory of
Mascarins (NBCM) during the Sustainable
Development Week that happened from from the 1st
to the 7th of April of this year. More »
The first-ever sea turtle tracking
project in Bangladesh has been initiated by
Marinelife Alliance. An Olive ridley turtle
– named “Urmee”, which means “wave” in Bangla –
was fitted with a Platform Terminal Transmitter
(PTT) and released into the Bay of Bengal from
Sonadia Island during the evening of 29 March
2010. The transmitter was installed during
the post-nesting period to minimize potential
interactions with fishing fleets and to reduce the
risk of the turtle being trapped in fishing
nets. More »
FROM THE SECRETARIAT
We’re way behind in getting the e-News
out this month, thanks in part to recent mission
commitments and a most unexpected and untimely
problem with part of the IOSEA website, which we
are managing to get on top of. Our soon-to-be
former internet service provider tried
unsuccessfully, for its own reasons, to migrate
the Online Reporting System to a new server – and
we have been dealing with the repurcussions ever
since. Hopefully everything will be sorted out in
the next week or so.
There are a couple of
interesting Features in the pipeline, but they
might have to wait until next month, because a
couple of weeks of “R & R” happen to be the
next item on the agenda.
In the meanwhile,
we hope you enjoy the Profile of the Month on the
recent Sea Turtle Symposium in Goa which, in the
opinion of this writer, was one of the most
interesting in recent
years.
MONTHLY ROUND-UP: What you may have missed
in April
"Hover" for summaries & "Click" to
view each story
Mwana wa Nyamba, newsletter du Parc Marin de
Mohéli (N) 2 is available. Please click here to download a pdf version
(2.74MB).
The Naucrates
times newsletter of April 2010 "Extraordinary sea turtle
nesting season" is available. Please click here to download a pdf version
(1.60MB).
Kelonia has organised an awareness campaign
based on the restoration of a marine turtle
nesting site on La Reunion Island, in partnership
with the National Botanical Conservatory of
Mascarins (NBCM) during the Sustainable
Development Week that happened from from the 1st
to the 7th of April of this year. 
The first-ever sea turtle tracking
project in Bangladesh has been initiated by
Marinelife Alliance. An Olive ridley turtle
– named “Urmee”, which means “wave” in Bangla –
was fitted with a Platform Terminal Transmitter
(PTT) and released into the Bay of Bengal from
Sonadia Island during the evening of 29 March
2010. The transmitter was installed during
the post-nesting period to minimize potential
interactions with fishing fleets and to reduce the
risk of the turtle being trapped in fishing
nets. 
