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We’re extremely interested in Sir David these days. We are one of the only research programs that satellite tags male leatherback turtles, so it’s particularly exciting to see what they do. [...]

Sometimes, it’s just nice to think about something else. I suppose it tells us a lot about the current state of the world that I’m suggesting an endangered species—about which we sometimes feel [...]

This map shows the track of the leatherback turtles that we helped satellite tag off the coast of Nova Scotia this summer in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada: Ruby, Sara, Isabel, [...]

It’s generally the time of year that we start to get very excited about our turtles heading to the nesting beach.

Here is where our turtles are. I have found it difficult to post these maps of late. The process itself is the same, of course. But I used to send the links to my friend Nicole.

In great news, the Canadian Wildlife Federation will be highlighting the tracks of four of our leatherbacks in an initiative called The Great Canadian Turtle Race, which they launched this week.

We’re gradually settling back into office life, packing away equipment and painstakingly transferring information from our field sheets to our database.

Riley and Lily Rose have both been seen nesting in French Guiana! We’ve just heard from our friend Antoine Baglan, who manages the database for Association KWATA in Cayenne, French Guiana.

And now there are three turtles to follow again. Our friends at the Nature Seekers satellite tagged another “Canadian” turtle at Matura Beach, Trinidad, that we have named Sharon