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WWF Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking in Latin America and the Caribbean
Citation
Amorocho D. 2016. WWF Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1306) on yyyy-mm-dd. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/5393
Contact:
Amorocho, Diego Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Notes: Only data aggregated per 1-degree cell are available through OBIS. For access to additional data, the provider needs to be contacted.
Description
This World Wildlife Fund (WWF) project is tracking the movements of green / black (Chelonia mydas / Chelonia agassizii), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea), loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) marine turtles along the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean region. more
The knowledge gained from such tracking will enable us to better understand the routes of these species. This will then allow us to improve conservation strategies for the benefit of these ancient travelers. The first tagging of this project was made in March 2013 within the protected waters of Gorgona Island National Park, located 56 km (44 miles) off Colombia’s Pacific coast. This excursion was led by Dr. Diego Amorocho, WWF Species Program Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, with the help of biologists Alexander Tobón and Juan S. Ayala and documented by Molly Edmonds from WWF-US. Two juvenile hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata)--“Celeste” and “Mateo”--were captured at La Azufrada reef. They were each fitted with a SPOT5 transmitter attached with an epoxy solution and later released in Playa Blanca reef. Both areas lie within Gorgona National Park. Only data aggregated per 1-degree cell are available through OBIS. For access to additional data, the provider needs to be contacted. Scope Themes: Biology > Reptiles Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Conservation, Movements, Satellite tracking, ASW, Caribbean, IE, East Pacific, Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758), Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766), Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) Temporal coverage
7 March 2013 - 8 February 2015 Taxonomic coverage
Parameter
Occurrence of biota Contributors
World Wide Fund for Nature; Marine Turtle Programme for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), more, data creator
Related datasets
Published in: OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more
URLs
Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring
Metadatarecord created: 2016-05-26
Information last updated: 2016-06-03
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