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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 ;

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Availability: Creative Commons License 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. 
More than 50,000 hatchlings were released so far. 

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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. 
An additional activity of the INNPA is sampling stranded sea turtle carcasses in order to collect different data, such as genetic information, population size and distribution.

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, EurOBIS calculated BBOX, MED, Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758), Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758)

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -50,5; MinLat: 21,5 - MaxLong: 87,5; MaxLat: 47,5 [WGS84]
Mediterranean [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
20 July 2008 - 2 July 2012

Taxonomic coverage
Caretta caretta (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Chelonia mydas (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]

Contributors
Israel Nature and Parks Authority; Sea Turtle Rescue Centerdata creatordata owner
Duke University; Marine Geospatial Ecology Labdataset publisher
Seaturtle.orgproposer

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Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Release date: 2021-04-24
Metadatarecord created: 2023-04-12
Information last updated: 2023-04-20
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