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WWF Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking in Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregated per 1-degree cell)

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Description

Original provider: WWF Latin America and the Caribbean Species Program Dataset credits: Data provider WWF LAC Species Tracking Program Originating data center Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT) Project partner Parques Nacionales de Colombia (DT Pacífico, Parque Nacional Gorgona, Parque Nacional Utria)
Iniciativa Carey del Pacífico Oriental (ICAPO)
Autoridad de los Recursos Acuáticos de Panamá (ARAP)
Fundación Natura - Colombia
Asociación Caguama- Colombia
Fundación Charles Darwin - Galapagos, Ecuador
Latin America Sea Turtles (LAST)
Ministerio de Ambiente de Panamá
Campamento Tortuguero Mayto - Mexico
Project sponsor or sponsor description WWF Netherlands and the Postcode Lottery’s Project Oceans
WWF US, WWF SFI
Seaturtle.org and its STAT tracking tool
PNUD
Gray Family Foundation Abstract: English:

This World Wildlife Fund (WWF) project is tracking the movements of green / black (Chelonia mydas / Chelonia agassizii), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), olive ridley (Lepidochelys olivacea), loggerhead (Caretta caretta) and hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata) marine turtles along the Eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean region.

The knowledge gained from such tracking will enable us to better understand the routes of these species. This will then allow us to improve conservation strategies for the benefit of these ancient travelers.

The first tagging of this project was made in March 2013 within the protected waters of Gorgona Island National Park, located 56 km (44 miles) off Colombia’s Pacific coast. This excursion was led by Dr. Diego Amorocho, WWF Species Program Coordinator for Latin America and the Caribbean, with the help of biologists Alexander Tobón and Juan S. Ayala and documented by Molly Edmonds from WWF-US.

Two juvenile hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata)--“Celeste” and “Mateo”--were captured at La Azufrada reef. They were each fitted with a SPOT5 transmitter attached with an epoxy solution and later released in Playa Blanca reef. Both areas lie within Gorgona National Park.

For more information go to: http://worldwildlife.org/stories?species_id=sea-turtle

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Este proyecto de World Wildlife Fund (WWF) monitorea los movimientos de tortugas verde / negra (Chelonia mydas / Chelonia agassizii), laúd (Dermochelys coriacea), golfina (Lepidochelys olivacea), caguama (Caretta caretta) y carey (Eretmochelys imbricata) a lo largo del Océano Pacífico Oriental y la región del Caribe.

El conocimiento obtenido de dicho seguimiento nos permitirá comprender mejor las rutas de estas especies. Esto entonces nos va a servir para mejorar las estrategias de conservación para el beneficio de estos antiguos viajeros.

La instalación de los primeros transmisores satelitales de este proyecto se realizó en marzo de 2013 en las aguas protegidas del Parque Nacional Natural Isla Gorgona, situado a 56 km (44 millas) de la costa del Pacífico de Colombia. Esta excursión fue dirigido por el Dr. Diego Amorocho, Coordinador Regional del Programa de Especies de WWF para Latino America y el Caribe y contó con la ayuda de los biólogos Alexander Tobón y Juan S. Ayala y fue documentado por Molly Edmonds de WWF-US.

Las primeras tortugas marcadas con un transmisor satelital fueron dos juveniles de tortuga carey (Eretmochelys imbricata) llamadas Celeste y Mateo. Estas fueron capturadas en el arrecife de La Azufrada. Cada una de ellas fue equipada con un transmisor SPOT5 unido con una solución de epoxy y posteriormente liberada en otro arrecife llamado Playa Blanca. Ambos tapetes coralinos se encuentran dentro del Parque Nacional Natural Gorgona, Pacífico de Colombia.

Mas información sobre tortugas marinas en http://worldwildlife.org/stories?species_id=sea-turtle 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.

Data Records

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Amorocho D. 2021. WWF Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking in Latin America and the Caribbean. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1306) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=791).

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: bc88ac0f-35ad-4883-a7a1-689e71fd9bf2.  OBIS-SEAMAP publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Ocean Biodiversity Information System.

Keywords

Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence

External data

The resource data is also available in other formats

OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1306 UTF-8 Interactive map
FGDC Metadata http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1306/xml UTF-8 XML
STAT Project Page http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=791 UTF-8 Original web site

Contacts

Diego Amorocho
  • Owner
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
Primary contact
WWF LAC Species Tracking Program
OBIS-SEAMAP
  • Metadata Provider
  • Distributor
Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University
A328 LSRC building
27708 Durham
NC
US
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool

Geographic Coverage

Oceans

Bounding Coordinates South West [-1.031, -91.092], North East [10.286, -77.311]

Taxonomic Coverage

Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).

Species Chelonia mydas (Green Sea Turtle), Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill Sea Turtle), Lepidochelys olivacea (Olive Ridley)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2013-03-07 / 2018-05-31

Project Data

No Description available

Title WWF Sea Turtle Satellite Tracking in Latin America and the Caribbean (aggregated per 1-degree cell)
Funding NA

The personnel involved in the project:

Diego Amorocho
  • Owner

Sampling Methods

NA

Study Extent NA

Method step description:

  1. NA

Collection Data

Collection Name zd_1306
Collection Identifier zd_1306
Parent Collection Identifier OBIS-SEAMAP

Additional Metadata

marine, harvested by iOBIS

Purpose Not available
Alternative Identifiers http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1306_1deg