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Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green Turtles (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Citation
Center I. 2021. Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green Turtles. Data originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=303). https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/8293
Contact:
Sea Turtle Rescue Center, more ;
Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Notes: This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.
Description
Israel National Nature and Parks Authority (INNPA) conducts a management plan for sea turtles since the 1980s. During more than 20 years, rangers are surveying the Mediterranean coasts, tracking, protecting and relocating loggerhead and green turtles' nests into hatcheries in coastal nature reserves. The hatcheries are protected and during the hatching season, the hatchlings are released by the help of rangers and volunteers. In 1999 INNPA established a sea turtle rescue center and every year dozens of wounded turtles are rehabilitated and more than 60% are released back to the wild. The turtles suffer from various injuries that result from fishing activity, pollution, plastic debris etc'. One part of the rescue center’s work is raising a breeding stock of green sea turtles. Their offspring will be released to the sea from the hatcheries. Original provider: Yaniv Levy Dataset credits: Data provider Marine Turtle Research Group Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Supplemental information: Visit STAT's project page for additional information. This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell. Scope Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Occurrence, MED, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758), Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage Mediterranean [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
20 July 2008 - 2 July 2012 Contributors
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Release date: 2021-04-24
Metadatarecord created: 2023-04-12
Information last updated: 2023-04-20
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