Descrição
Original provider:
Emirates Wildlife Society-WWF
Dataset credits:
Data provider
Emirates Wildlife Society WWF - Marine Research Foundation
Originating data center
Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)
Project partner
This project is implemented by the Emirates Wildlife Society and the Marine Research Foundation.
EWS (Emirates Wildlife Society) is a local environmental NGO working at a federal level to promote the conservation of nature in the UAE. To better achieve its goals, EWS has partnered with one of the world's largest and most experienced conservation organization, WWF. Within the UAE, EWS-WWF aims to protect and conserve the unique nature of the region by developing and implementing projects that actively deal with conservation and protection of nature. So far, projects have included the establishment of protected areas, protection of species and habitats and increasing environmental awareness through education programmes. EWS-WWF works with local government and non-governmental organisations including Dubai Municipality, the Environmental Agency-Abu Dhabi (EAD), EPDA in Ras Al Khaimah, EPAA in Sharjah and Fujairah Municipality.
The Marine Research Foundation, based in Sabah, Malaysia, was established to further the understanding of marine ecosystems and their associated diverse flora and fauna in Southeast Asia and other Indo-Pacific sites. The Foundation carries out a number of projects related to biodiversity assessment and conservation, and seeks to provide management-oriented solutions to Government administrations and conservationists. Based in Malaysia, MRF runs projects in numerous countries and has a key focus area in the Middle East, with current direct involvement in marine turtle projects in Qatar, UAE, and Oman, and past involvement in projects in Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Yemen.
Regional project partners include:
Iran - Department of Environment
Oman - Ministry of Environment and Climate Affairs and Environment Society of Oman
Qatar- Environmental Studies Center (Qatar University), Ministry of Environment and Ras Laffan Industrial City
United Arab Emirates- Environment Agency Abu Dhabi, Emirates Wildlife Society / WWF, Emirates Marine Environment Group
Abstract:
Marine turtle populations around the globe are threatened through over-harvesting and habitat loss. In the Gulf region, marine turtles have provided food at a subsistence level to fisherman and coastal dwellers since time immemorial. Evidence of this dates back five thousand years! Turtles have also been used traditionally for their fat and meat, and their eggs have fed families dependent on the bounty of the sea. But with increased coastal use and industrialization, and the advent of outboard motors and access to distant markets, the loss of turtles and their eggs has reached a level from which populations are struggling to recover. Turtle eggs, which used to be collected on an occasional, irregular basis, are now collected nearly every single time a nesting female emerges on the beach. Of even greater concern is the increased coastal development - industrialization and urbanization have resulted in severe habitat loss and alteration, and industrialised fisheries, which decimate turtles while at sea, continue to grow. Today, critical measures are urgently needed to safeguard the few remaining turtle nesting sites, their feeding and breeding sites at sea, and their migratory pathways.
The project links together numerous stakeholders, from Government agencies to NGOs to the private sector, and will combine scientific research and monitoring with environment awareness centered on marine turtle protection – and bring about regional change –positive change resulting in long-term conservation of marine turtles.
This project, using capacity building, awareness raising and satellite tracking and monitoring of marine turtles in the Gulf region as operational building blocks, aims to develop a marine turtle conservation action plan through the results of a three year project with the following objectives:
• Develop strategic partnerships amongst government agencies, NGOs and the private sector at both National and Regional levels;
• Raise the awareness of marine turtle conservation needs at National and Regional levels;
• Elucidate the post-nesting migrations and biology of marine turtles using satellite tracking;
• Identify foraging grounds of endangered marine turtles and linkages between nesting and feeding population assemblages;
• Share tracking data and findings to relevant authorities and contribute to the development of a regional marine turtle conservation plan;
• Integrate these conservation initiatives within international conservation agreements on marine turtles and national programmes.
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.
Registros de Dados
Os dados deste recurso de ocorrência foram publicados como um Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), que é o formato padronizado para compartilhamento de dados de biodiversidade como um conjunto de uma ou mais tabelas de dados. A tabela de dados do núcleo contém 162 registros.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versões
A tabela abaixo mostra apenas versões de recursos que são publicamente acessíveis.
Como citar
Pesquisadores deveriam citar esta obra da seguinte maneira:
Antonopoulou M. 2021. Gulf Turtle Tracking Project 2010. Data downloaded from OBIS-SEAMAP (http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1255) on yyyy-mm-dd originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=658).
Direitos
Pesquisadores devem respeitar a seguinte declaração de direitos:
O editor e o detentor dos direitos deste trabalho é OBIS-SEAMAP. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
Este recurso foi registrado no GBIF e atribuído ao seguinte GBIF UUID: ac8cc5bb-5327-474c-ae67-bafe7728b6f5. OBIS-SEAMAP publica este recurso, e está registrado no GBIF como um publicador de dados aprovado por Ocean Biodiversity Information System.
Palavras-chave
Occurrence; Observation; Occurrence
Dados externos
Os dados de recurso também estão disponíveis em outros formatos
OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1255 UTF-8 Interactive map |
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FGDC Metadata | http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1255/xml UTF-8 XML |
STAT Project Page | http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=658 UTF-8 Original web site |
Contatos
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Cobertura Geográfica
Oceans
Coordenadas delimitadoras | Sul Oeste [14,428, 1,962], Norte Leste [36,903, 97,864] |
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Cobertura Taxonômica
Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS).
Espécie | Eretmochelys imbricata (Hawksbill Sea Turtle) |
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Cobertura Temporal
Data Inicial / Data final | 2010-04-19 / 2013-05-18 |
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Dados Sobre o Projeto
Nenhuma descrição disponível
Título | Gulf Turtle Tracking Project 2010 (aggregated per 1-degree cell) |
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Financiamento | NA |
O pessoal envolvido no projeto:
- Proprietário
Métodos de Amostragem
NA
Área de Estudo | NA |
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Descrição dos passos do método:
- NA
Dados de Coleção
Nome da Coleção | zd_1255 |
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Identificador da Coleção | zd_1255 |
Identificador da Coleção Parental | OBIS-SEAMAP |
Metadados Adicionais
marine, harvested by iOBIS
Propósito | Not available |
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Identificadores alternativos | http://ipt.env.duke.edu/resource?r=zd_1255_1deg |