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Conservation requires comprehensive data about the target species or ecosystem. For marine turtles, obtaining such data can be challenging due to their migratory and cryptic nature, as well as their long and complex life histories. This hampers our ability to assess fundamental parameters such as population size and reproductive output, and to design adequate spatial conservation measures. In this thesis, I aim to comprehensively synthesize the available information regarding marine turtles along the African continental east coast and address several of the identified knowledge gaps with multiple long- term data sets from Watamu, Kenya, that were collected by a grassroots community-based organisation. More specifically, in Chapter 1, I combine results from a systematic literature review with perspectives from Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa and the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region, provided by …