Multimedia logs from the world of sea turtle research and conservation.
"A Beachcomber's Guide to Turtle Tracks" is a dvd produced by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Fish and Wildlife Research Institute, to train volunteers who participate in the agency's nesting surveys for marine turtles. These volunteers (>3,000 in 2010) contribute data to FWC's Statewide Nesting Beach Survey and Index Nesting Beach Survey. In 2010, surveys were carried out on 203 beaches that extended 1314 km. The video shows nesting behavior of loggerheads, green turtles and leatherbacks and relates that behavior to the evidence left in the sand-the tracks and nest. Volunteers learn how to identify which species of sea turtle made the track, and to determine whether a turtle nested or not. All participants are permitted by the agency to conduct activities related to sea turtles in Florida. For more information, see http://myfwc.com/research/wildlife/sea-turtles/nesting/sea-turtle-monitoring/
Seminar given by Michael Coyne of SEATURTLE.ORG at the Duke University Marine Lab, 4 February 2009. This talks gives an overview of the mission and programs of the non-profit SEATURTLE.ORG and details how these help to build a global sea turtle network.
It is available to download the fourth (the last one!) episode of the WebVDoc series "Sea Turtles in Cape Verde". It is a documentary series produced during the "beach" work months of the 2007 "Initiative for Conservation and Integrated Management of Sea Turtles in the Santiago Island - Cape Verde", carried by the Algarve University (Portugal) with the Lisbon Oceanarium support.
Loggerhead hatchlings have an incredibly frenzy period of life that begins after the eggshells' pipping. This frenetic activity occurs in the nest chamber and help hatchlings during its climb to the beach surface. Emergence in another frenzy period, followed by minutes of frenzy crawl seaward. Finally inside coastal sea-waters, hatchlings remain with a frenzy activity, swimming underwater until the relative safely open-ocean...
Step by step, the loggerhead nesting process in the beaches of Praia Baixo and Achada Baleia (Santiago Island, Cape Verde), during the nesting season (July to September) of 2007.
An overview about sea turtles conservation in the biggest of the ten islands that form the capeverdian archipelago.
Theme song for the 27th Sea Turtle Symposium as recorded by J Nichos, President-elect.
Orissa's appalling turtle crisis. A documentary on the mass slaughter of olive ridley sea turtles along the coast of Orissa, India.
Release of six rehabilitated sea turtle on Topsail Island, North Carolina.
Get to know the Ocean Revolution...and get involved. Produced by Christian Scheider (15 year old film maker from NY)
Jean Beasley updates a crowd regarding the North Carolina Dept of Marine Fisheries permit to kill sea turtles before the release of six turtles that were rehabilitated at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital.
Hear from biologists and veterinarians while they inspect patients at a sea turtle rehabilitation center and prepare them for release.
Jean Beasley takes us on a tour of the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Hospital on Topsail Island, North Carolina, and introduces us to all of the patients.
Matthew Godfrey takes a trip to tag a juvenile green sea turtle named Peanut with the help of Christian Guerreri and Catherine McClellan.
Living on Earth's Cynthia Graber reports from Mexico, where one sea turtle researcher has been trying to navigate the difficult waters of conservation and its clash with local cultures. See a map of Max the sea turtle's track at http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=21217. Originaly aired August 10, 2001.
Satellite tag attachment on an adult female loggerhead sea turtle at Bald Head Island, North Carolina. Video provided by the Newport Aquarium and WCPO 9, Cincinnati, Ohio. Orginally recording in 2003.
Marine Turtle Research Group staff visited St. Mary's School, Virgin Gorda to give a presentation on "Marine Turtles in the BVI". The whole school composed and performed a song for the occassion. For more information visit http://www.seaturtle.org/mtrg/projects/anegada/outputs.shtml.
A video documenting the Sea Turtles Expidition Project to be carried out by the Ecological Research Society (EKAD) in Turkey. Originally released 21 July 2004. Visit http://www.seaturtle.org/podcast/ for more information.
A sea turtle presentation by Lucy Hawkes of the Marine Turtle Research Group. Webcast on Darwin Centre Live by the London Natural History Museum. Originally recorded for World Turtle Day, 22 May 2005.