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https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/cambodia-sea-turtle-nests-spark-hope-amid-coastal-development-species-decline/>
"PHNOM PENH — In late December 2023, on a remote island in Preah Sihanouk
province, off the southwest coast of Cambodia, a team of conservationists
uncovered nine nests belonging to sea turtles after more than a decade of
searching for them.
Cambodia’s marine turtle population has long been declining, but this discovery
has sparked hope among conservationists that the critically endangered
hawksbill turtles (
Eretmochelys imbricata) and endangered green turtles
(
Chelonia mydas) have not vanished from Cambodia’s waters.
Nine nests were discovered by volunteers from the Royal Cambodian Navy who are
stationed on the island and have been trained by Fauna & Flora to monitor for
the presence of sea turtles after a nest was discovered in March 2022.
That initial finding of a single nest represented the first time that a sea
turtle nest had been seen in Cambodia for a decade, highlighting the species’
decline.
During the final days of 2023, naval personnel uncovered the nine nests, two of
which had already hatched, and were able to estimate that the nests could hold
as many as 1,000 eggs. It is believed that all of the nests should have hatched
before the end of January 2024.
Matt Glue, a marine technical specialist working with Fauna & Flora in
Cambodia, was able to confirm that some of the newly discovered nests were laid
by a green turtle due to a female being spotted on the beach during a rare
daytime nesting event. The remaining nests, he said, could be from either green
or hawksbill turtles, which cannot be told apart without observing the tracks
of the nesting turtle."
Via
Future Crunch:
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https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
