The tourism industry keeps beaches clean in Mozambique

G Inteca, B Hagy, I Silva, C Amoda, A Cululo… - Marine Pollution …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we conducted the first assessment of the litter abundance, diversity and
predictors in Mozambique, by collecting approximately 2 tons of litter along six beaches …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic nutrients and phytoplankton diversity in Kenya's coastal waters: An ecological quality assessment of sea turtle foraging sites

NA Oduor, CN Munga, LK Imbayi, PK Botwe… - Marine Pollution …, 2024 - Elsevier
We assessed ecological quality status (EQS) of coastal waters following claims of increasing
sea turtle fibro-papillomatosis (FP) infections in Kenya, a disease hypothesized to be …

Conservation and management of olive ridley sea turtles and their nesting habitat: A study at Rushikulya rookery, Odisha, east coast of India

S Barik, PK Mohanty, S Pradhan, RK Sahoo… - Ocean & Coastal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Odisha coast, along the east coast of India, has the world's largest mass nesting sites
(rookeries) for olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea) sea turtles. It has three rookeries namely …

Distribution of global sea turtle nesting explained from regional-scale coastal characteristics

JC Christiaanse, JAA Antolínez, AP Luijendijk… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Climate change and human activity threaten sea turtle nesting beaches through increased
flooding and erosion. Understanding the environmental characteristics that enable nesting …

Two decades of community-based conservation yield valuable insights into marine turtle nesting ecology

CH Van De Geer, AC Broderick, MID Carter, AA Irei… - Oryx, 2024 - cambridge.org
For the Western Indian Ocean region, there is a significant knowledge gap regarding marine
turtle nesting on the continental coast of East Africa. Here we present results from a long …

Testing for concordance between predicted species richness, past prioritization, and marine protected area designations in the western Indian Ocean

TR McClanahan, AM Friedlander, J Wickel… - Conservation …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Scientific advances in environmental data coverage and machine learning algorithms have
improved the ability to make large‐scale predictions where data are missing. These …

Regional foraging areas of green turtles (Chelonia mydas) nesting at Aldabra Atoll: insights from stable isotopes and satellite telemetry

CL Sanchez, P Casale, N Bunbury, L A'Bear… - Biodiversity and …, 2024 - Springer
Sea turtles spend the majority of their lives at foraging grounds. These areas are important
for population persistence but generally occur in coastal habitats, which are under …

Dispersal corridors of neonate sea turtles from dominant rookeries in the Western Indian Ocean

DZM Le Gouvello, S Heye, LR Harris… - Ecological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Identifying dispersal pathways and critical habitats is essential to evaluate risks and inform
effective management strategies of migratory marine species during all life stages. This is …

The use of the territorial sea by Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz, 1829) in front of nesting beaches in Oaxaca, Mexico

RI Ramírez-Villanueva, F Gumeta-Gómez… - Regional Studies in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Scientific research focused on sea turtle monitoring and management has relied on nesting
beaches, but little attention has been paid to surveying turtles in the territorial sea off nesting …

The tale of the sea turtle flipper tagging technique, a global environmental impact assessment

C Saladin, D Freggi - Wildlife Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Although sea turtle flipper tagging is a tenet field technique generating irreplaceable
scientific data worldwide since the inception of sea turtle conservation in 1920s along the …