Nesting Beach

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. [...]

We are overjoyed! A quick recap: We satellite tagged Daisy off the coast of Nova Scotia on July 11 in collaboration with Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO). Daisy already had one flipper tag when [...]

We haven’t heard anything more from Daisy. Not since that last satellite tag detection near the coast on the morning before we were expecting her to nest. Sometimes a turtle’s transmitter fails [...]

  11 April 2019 11:35 p.m. All night, we have been concentrating on Daisy, who was the first turtle we satellite tagged last summer. She is set to nest tonight—we think—at Grand Riviere. [...]

This is the second part of Kayla Hamelin’s journal of her time working on the nesting beach with leatherbacks in Trinidad last spring.

At this time of year, we are deep into planning for our upcoming turtle season on the field boat and at the Sea Turtle Centre.

We were just checking the data records sent to us by our friends at Nature Seekers in Trinidad about the Canadian turtles they’ve seen on the beach.

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

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.