New Global Initiative to Map Blue Corridors for Turtles
A new WWF-coordinated initiative called Blue Corridors for Turtles aims to close critical gaps in marine turtle and ocean conservation. Launched on World Sea Turtle Day, this multi-partner...
Using Micro-Satellite Tags to Track Tiny Sea Turtles
Upwell works to better understand how sea turtles use different marine environments at various life history stages in order to reduce the threats they face at sea. However, collecting data on a...
Flatback turtles tracked to identify foraging areas and their variability within the species
Flatback turtles are marine turtles endemic to the Australian continental shelf. Few information is available on them, which hinder conservation measures. Satellite tracking and stable isotope...
Leatherback Turtles Nesting in Equatorial Guinea
Tracking leatherback turtles can help in protecting them at both a local scale, close to their nesting beach, and a basin-scale, when they migrate. The population from the Gulf of Guinea is...
Turtles in a Hurricane
Turtles in the Gulf of Mexico experience major hurricanes. How they respond to such extreme events is a puzzle whose answers would contribute to the conservation of these threatened and endangered...
Green Turtles’ Uses of Marine Protected Areas on the West African Coasts
Green turtles are found along the West African upwelling. A network of Marine Protected Areas has been established during the past 25 years. Its efficiency towards protecting green turtles can be...
Loggerhead Turtles and Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas
Assessing whether an endangered species visits the protected areas – or not – is an important indicator of their relevance. Tracking of loggerhead turtles in the Mediterranean Sea show that...
Japan-Nesting Loggerhead Turtles Foraging Habitats
Loggerhead turtles can forage either on continental shelf or in the open ocean. The North Pacific population, nesting whole in Japan show both behaviours. Their foraging areas are pinpointing using...
Turtles in the Bay of Biscay
Juvenile sea turtles are cared and rehabilitated at Aquarium La Rochelle, in France. Since 2008, a few of them were equipped with Argos PTTs before being released. Analysis of their tracks could...
Sea turtles in tropical cyclones
Collecting sea turtle-borne temperature and depth sensor data with Argos satellite telemetry tags helps to sample the first 100 m layer of tropical oceans, where tropical storms and cyclones take...
Very young green turtles go into the Sargasso Sea
The life of young (“lost years”) marine turtles had long been a mystery. Improvements in satellite telemetry now enable to unveil part of it. North Atlantic young green turtles, in particular, seem...
Western Australian Green Turtle Behaviour Analysed
A large population of green turtles is found in Western Australia. Using a database of tracks enables scientists to model their behaviour and help in deciding the protection regulations to enforce....
How Do Sea Turtles Fare After Being Rehabilitated and Released?
Sea turtle rehabilitation centres are becoming increasingly important to threatened sea turtle populations around the world. However, one key question is whether rehabilitation is actually helpful...
Argos Forum #87 | Biodiversity: Increasing our knowledge from space
Record-Breaking distances revealed by Argos, Spoon-billed Sandpipers, long-range travelers, Sea turtle ecology: a novel solution to increase knowledge using Argos, etc.
How Endangered Species Such as Marine Turtles Use Marine Protected Areas?
Marine Protected Areas are one of the main instruments for endangered species protection. Argos can help in defining their outlines to have the best impact, especially when a large number of tracks...
Juvenile Green Turtle Individuals Behave Differently, Satellite Telemetry Reveals
Tracking the behaviour of a large number of juvenile green turtles in contrasting environments using satellite telemetry enables to show behavioural differences across individuals. The green turtle...
Sea Turtle Ecology: A Novel Solution to Increase Knowledge Using Argos
An essential part of animal conservation is knowing and understanding their behavior. More than 500 turtles are tracked every month with Argos so that scientists can identify feeding and nesting...
Data Collected from Animals Can Help Ocean Observing Systems
Data collected on animals by Argos satellite telemetry can be provided to physical oceanography, to fill in a number of gaps in the ocean observing systems. A study details how animal-born...
Two Very Different Destinations for Two Adventurous Turtles
CESTM (Centre d’Études et de Soins pour les Tortues Marines) coordinates the French Eastern Atlantic Marine Turtle Network and welcomes all marine turtles found stranded or in distress drifting or...
Olive Ridley Turtles Help in Ocean Climate Forecasting
Olive Ridley sea turtles live in the tropical oceans. They dive to feed, and, as all species of sea turtles, they are threatened these days. To help in understanding and protecting them, some are...
Kelonia: Honoring Sea Turtles
For 15 years, Kelonia, the CEDTM and its partners (Ifremer, CNRS, Universities, TAAF, the French Biodiversity Agency-AFB,...) have equipped nearly 300 sea turtles with Argos tags to study their...
Happy World Sea Turtle Day from Argos
On June 16th, people around the world celebrate the beauty of sea turtles and their importance to the marine ecosystem. Unique operator of the Argos system since 1986, CLS would like to take this...
Understanding the Tracking of Three Loggerhead Turtles with Ocean Data
Trajectories of loggerhead turtles in the Atlantic ocean and the Mediterranean Sea have been tracked using Argos transmitters. Comparing the tracks with marine environmental data provides a better...
Argos System contributes to Protect Marine Turtles in the Caribbean
In the French West Indies, five turtle species are threatened. This includes the hawksbill turtle, green turtle, leatherback turtle, loggerhead turtle and olive Ridley turtle. Three of these species...
Combining Argos and Genetics to Reveal Connecting Paths Between Juvenile and Adult Habitats in the Atlantic Green Turtle
At the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife, Philippine Chambault of IFREMER presents this fascinating project of the French Research agency IPHC-CNRS. Although it is commonly assumed that...
Tracking Turtles to Inform Conservation
Brendan Godley, of University of Exeter has been tracking turtles using the ARGOS system for 20 years and has been involved in collaborative projects that have tagged over 500 hundred animals across...
Oceanographic Turtles: Integration of Sea Turtle Tracking With Ocean Observing Systems
At the European User Conference on Argos Wildlife (EUCAW), David March will present the “Oceanographic Turtles” project which aims to provide the scientific basis to support the development of risk...
News about the Rana turtle
Do you remember Rana? This is the turtle collected and treated for four years by the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. After his release and the few adventures to find the camera that filmed his first...
The Adventure of the Turtle Named Rana and her Camera
Around the 21st of June, as part of an action led by the Oceanographic Museum of Monaco, Robert Calcagno, Damien Chevalier & Olivier Brunel released a sea turtle named Rana who had been...
Tweeting Mediterranean Loggerhead Turtles as Oceanographers
Loggerhead turtle around Balearic Islands are equipped with Argos satellite tracking tags. Their data are used as oceanographic data source, and they also can be followed in real-time on Twitter, as...
EO4 Wildlife: Platform for Wildlife Monitoring Integrating Copernicus and Argos Data
In November 2017, a new version of the EO4wildlife platform was released to all partners. This version provide a wide new set of features such as access to new datasets, integration of new...
Endangered Sea Turtle Species in Papua New Guinea
One of our Argos users recently deployed the first satellite tagged, hard shelled turtles (greens and hawksbills) in Papua New Guinea. The Argos satellite tags will help to understand the movement...
Capture and Study of Marine Turtles in Martinique
Martinique hosts key areas defined as development habitats for green and hawksbill turtles. In this context, the local wildlife management and conservation structures and the National Action Plans...
Katrina Phillips, Junevile Sea Turtles and Marine Protected Areas in the Gulf of Mexico
All sea turtles living in U.S. waters are listed as either endangered or threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. Turtles face both natural threats and human-caused threats, including...
Tracking of Sea Turtles
One of our Argos customers recently deployed the first satellite tagged, hard shelled turtles (greens and hawksbills) in Papua New Guinea. Its very exciting news in the turtle world! Conservation...
Argos Forum #84 | Argos Serving Marine Protected Areas
Did you know that 71% of Earth's surface are oceans, but only 3% of the world's oceans are protected in actively managed Marine Protected Areas (MPA)? And yet... did you know that 625+ animals are...
Argos Reveals Migration and Dive Behavior of Sea Turtles in the North Pacific
Argos satellite telemetry studies over the last two decades revealed that sea turtles undertake wide-range migration, and often trans-oceanic migration. Moreover, advanced Argos PTT (Platform...
World Sea Turtle Day with Argos
Over 6893 marine sea turtles have been tracked with Argos since the beginning of the Argos system over 30 years ago. Like some other turtle species, Hawksbill sea turtle populations are in decline...
Argos Forum #82 | Wildlife Conservation in the Middle East
User program: Using Argos to identify important sites for flamingos in a rapidly changing landscape User program: Using Argos to track sooty falcons from Oman to Madagascar User program: Marine...
How Leatherback Turtles Will React to Climate Change
Pacific leatherbacks, a species that is already in sharp decline due to development on nesting beaches, illegal egg harvesting and fisheries bycatch, may also be vulnerable to climate change. In a...
Sea Turtles Equipped with Argos Transmitters
100 argos satellite transmitters were deployed on adult green turtles and 19 loggerhead turtles for the DYMITILE project. 20 new Argos will be deployed in 2014 and 2015 on loggerhead turtles...
34th Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation
The Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, hosted every year by the International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS), is a unique event that draws participants from around the world, from...
Tracking Sea Turtles in Brazil via the Argos System
Sea turtles, are highly migratory have a complex life cycle and use a wide range of habitats. All five turtle species found along the Brazilian coast are endangered and included in the National...