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Green Turtle Hatchlings | Aren't they cute!!

Green Turtles Keep on Coming...

November 13, 2012
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10th of October,  Green turtles are still coming up at Sunset Bar this late in ...

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Linda and Number 4

The First Rains...

September 26, 2012
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Big patches of brown toasted grass across the plateau, lifeless, dry and definitely tasteless by ...

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White-eye caught in mistnet and about to get ringed and measured

Conservation Update...

September 26, 2012
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The Green Turtles nesting season continued with high numbers of emergences, keeping us very busy ...

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Green Turtle Nesting Update...

August 28, 2012
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The good green turtle season continues, with 23 more emergences in August, thereby bringing the ...

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The Survival of the Sea Turtle...

July 26, 2012
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Watch the miraculous journey of infant sea turtles as these tiny animals run the gauntlet ...

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An early morning, WAY TO MUCH SAND, and an assumption that somewhere about 70 cm below the surface there has to be a green turtle clutch of about 150 to maybe even 200 eggs laid  too close of the lights at our Sunset Bar and therefore in need of a translocation to a darker spot where the hatchlings will not get disoriented by the lights in their nocturnal march to the sea, where their instinct dictate them to follow the moon and star lights reflecting on the waves. Put all this together, throw in a motivated environmental assistant and two excited marine students on their first turtle assignment, and that’s what you get!

A green turtle story...

July 23, 2012
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[caption id="attachment_1884" align="alignleft" width="560"] A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do, right? But ...

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GRN hatchlings release nest card number 253 18.09.2011 CH. (5)

Flippered Journey into the Gre...

September 28, 2011
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Unlike the hawksbill turtle, numbers of green turtle females coming on land to nest differ ...

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The Times, They are a Changing...

October 23, 2010
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With the official end of the south east monsoon season now declared we look forward ...

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