Voluntary feeding of gravid green turtles during the reproductive period: Implications for breeding strategy of marine reptilian herbivores

Junichi Okuyama^1,2, Narumi Kishida³, Hideaki Nishizawa¹, Yuka Obe¹, Takuro Mogi³, Takuya Koizumi¹, Takuji Noda¹, Tohya Yasuda¹, Yuuki Kawabata¹, Takashi Yokota¹, Kotaro Ichikawa¹, Yasushi Mitsunaga³, Nobuaki Arai¹

1: Graduate school of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan; 2: Present Address: Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency; 3: Graduate school of Agriculture, Kindai University, Japan

Identifying the foraging grounds of new loggerhead turtle nesters in the Western Mediterranean

Luis Cardona¹, Sara Abalo-Morla², Alessandra Cani¹, Blanca Feliu-Tena², Nuria Izaguirre¹, Jesús Tomás³, Eduardo Jorge Belda²

1: University of Barcelona, Spain; 2: Institut d’Investigació per a la Gestió de Zones Costaneres (IGIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain; 3: Cavanilles Institute of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology, University of Valencia, Spain

Foraging behavior of leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) off Massachusetts, USA: insights from acceleration data loggers

Kara L. Dodge¹, Connor F. White², Scott Landry³, Bob Lynch³, Nicholas M. Whitney¹

1: Anderson Cabot Center for Ocean Life, New England Aquarium, Boston, MA, USA; 2: Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA; 3: Center for Coastal Studies, Provincetown, MA, USA

A fine-scale habitat-based density model for leatherback turtles foraging in nearshore waters off central California, USA.

Scott R. Benson^1,2, Karin A. Forney^1,2

1: Marine Mammal and Turtle Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 7544 Sandholdt Rd, Moss Landing, CA, USA; 2: Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San Jose State University, 7544 Sandholdt Rd, Moss Landing, CA, USA

Foraging green turtles (Chelonia mydas) in southern California: nutrient flow and habitat structure characterized by essential amino acid 13C fingerprinting

Garrett E Lemons¹, Alexi C Besser², Seth D Newsome², Jeffrey A Seminoff¹

1: NOAA, United States of America; 2: University of New Mexico, Department of Biology

A deeper dive into the life history and habitat use patterns of green sea turtles in Southern California, USA

Cali N. Turner Tomaszewicz, Erin L. LaCasella, Garrett Lemons, Robin A. LeRoux, Andrew Maurer, Kimberly LeRoy, Jeffrey A. Seminoff

NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center, United States of America

Detecting residency and habitat fidelity of green turtles in Taiwan

Chia-Ling Fong^1,2,3,4, Huai Su^4,6, Daphne Z. Hoh^2,4,5, Chia-Chen Tsai⁴, Shih Liu⁴, Kelly W. H. Tseng⁴, Felipe M. G. Mattos^1,2,3, Melissa Liu⁴, Ju-Hsiung Wu⁷, Aziz J. Mulla⁷, Nozawa Yoko⁸, Benny K. K. Chan^1,2,3

1: Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; 2: Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 3: Department of Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; 4: TurtleSpot Taiwan, Pingtung, Taiwan; 5: Taiwan Biodiversity Information Facility, Taipei, Taiwan; 6: Islander divers, Pingtung, Taiwan; 7: National Taiwan University, Institute of Oceanography, Taipei, Taiwan; 8: University of the Ryukyus, Tropical Biosphere Research Center

Inter-nesting area use, migratory routes, and foraging grounds for hawksbill turtle

Chelsea E. Clyde-Brockway^1,2, Daniel R. Evans³, Lindsey Eggers⁴, Quintin D. Bergman², Luis G. Fonseca⁵, Frank V. Paladino², Stephen G. Dunbar^6,7,8

1: The Leatherback Trust, USA; 2: Purdue University Fort Wayne, USA; 3: Sea Turtle Conservancy, USA; 4: Seattle Aquarium, Seattle, WA, USA; 5: Biocenosis Marina, Costa Rica; 6: Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR, Inc.) USA; 7: Marine Research Group, Loma Linda University, USA; 8: Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR - Honduras.)

Using satellite telemetry to identify migration routes and foraging grounds of olive ridley sea turtles (lepidochelys olivcea) from the west philippines sea, philippines

Ale Ponzo¹, Andrew Troy Glinsky¹, Sharah Marie Barredo¹, Ariana Agustines¹, Titus Canete¹, Jessica Labaja¹, Ronnie del Rosario², Alexander R Gaos³, T. Todd Jones³, Rene Manibale², Curt Ivan Mariano¹, Summer L Martin³, Sally Snow¹, John Wang³

1: Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines Inc., Philippines; 2: Alimanguan Saguip Pawikan, Philippines; 3: NOAA Fisheries - Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, HI, USA

Dispersal corridors of neonate sea turtles from dominant rookeries in the Western Indian Ocean

Diane Le Gouvello¹, Sonia Heye^2,3, Linda Harris¹, Julien Temple-Boyer⁴, Philippe Gaspar⁴, Michael Hart-Davis⁵, Cristina Louro¹, Ronel Nel¹

1: Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa; 2: Nansen-Tutu Centre for Marine Environmental Research, Department of Oceanography, University of Cape Town, South Africa; 3: Deltares, Delft, Netherlands; 4: Mercator Ocean International, 2 Av. de l Aérodrome de Montaudran, Toulouse, France; 5: Deutsches Geodätisches Forschungsinstitut, Technische Universitat Munchen, Munich, Germany

Testing the Thermal Corridor Hypothesis: Does El Nino warming of the NE Pacific allow Japanese Loggerheads to go to Mexico?

Larry B Crowder¹, Dana K Briscoe¹, George H Balazs², Jeffery J Polovina³, Jeffrey A Seminoff⁴, Alberto Abreu-Grobois⁵, Masanori Kurita⁶, Masanori Mori⁶, Denise M Parker², Marc R Rice⁷, Tomomi Saito⁸, Bianca S Santos¹, Calandra N Turner-Tomaszewicz⁴, Noah Yamaguchi⁸

1: Stanford University, CA, USA; 2: Golden Honu Services of Oceania, Honolulu, HI and Newport, OR, USA; 3: University of Hawaii-Manoa, Honolulu HI, USA; 4: NOAA-SWFSC, LaJolla, CA, USA; 5: Unidad Academica Mazatlan, UNAM, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, MX; 6: Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium, Nagoya, JP; 7: Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Kamuela, HI, USA; 8: Kochi University, Kochi, JP

Tracking post-release movement patterns of New York's rehabilitated sea turtles provides insights into their utilization of New York waters

Maxine A. Montello^1,3, Wendy J. McFarlane², Joseph D. Warren³

1: New York Marine Rescue Center, Riverhead, NY, USA; 2: Division of Natural Sciences, Mathematics & Computing, Manhattanville College, Purchase, NY, USA; 3: School for Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Southampton, NY, USA

Monitoring green sea turtles in the San Gabriel River of Southern California, USA

Lynn Marie Massey¹, Shannon Penna¹, Eric Zahn², Dan Lawson¹, Cassandra Davis³

1: NOAA Fisheries West Coast Region; 2: Tidal Influence, Inc.; 3: Aquarium of the Pacific

^Community monitoring, conservation and securing the future of flatback turtles (Natator depressus) in Port Hedland, Western Australia.

Kelly Ann Howlett

Care For Hedland Environmental Association Inc, Australia

Community-based sea turtle monitoring in pantai sausapor nature reserve and its surrounding: an approach to streamline sea turtle conservation management

Muhammad Wahyu Hasibuan¹, Hormes Ulimpa¹, Yusdi Lamatenggo³, Mohammad Fajrin Ramadhon², Ratna Ningsih Kuswara²

1: Natural Resources Conservation Agency of West Papua; 2: Fauna & Flora Indonesia Programme; 3: Department of Youth, Sports, Tourism and Creative Economy of Southwest Papua Province

Sea turtle ambassadors for the Gulf: place-based learning through field experiences for teachers and students

Yasmeen Fadlallah

Inwater Research Group, United States of America

^"Warriors of the Rainbow" educating future leaders and decision makers

Damaris Marin-Smith, Rozino Gene Smith

Campamento Tortuguero Ayotlcalli A.C, Mexico

Citizen science participation in monitoring the sea turtle population of Fitzroy Island, Cairns, Australia through photo-ID recapture techniques

Helen Kate Young¹, Amir Patel², Cassie Smith¹

1: Oceans 2 Earth Volunteers, Australia; 2: Aow Thai Marine Ecology Centre, Thailand

Too much science and little communication: The art of sharing information and values through storytelling

Georgina Zamora Quílez

Sea Turtle Conservancy

Citizen scientist come out of their shells

Daniela Alarcon^1,2,3, Sterlina Smith⁴, I-Sah Hsieh⁴, Jason Colon⁴, Jonny McElhinney McElhinney⁴, Jen Mahone⁴, Steve Mellgren⁴, Kelly Weaver³, Juan Pablo Munoz Perez^1,2,3

1: School of Science, Technology & Engineering, University of the Sunshine Coast UniSC, Queensland, Australia.; 2: Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales COCIBA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Galápagos, Ecuador; 3: Galápagos Science Center GSC, USFQ & UNC-Chapel Hill, Puerto Baquerizo Moreno, Galápagos, Ecuador; 4: SAS

^VIVEMAR a self-sufficient community project with more than fourteen years protecting sea turtles on Oaxaca, Mexico.

Cinthia Verónica Venzor Leyva

VIVEMAR ONG, Oaxaca, Mexico.

Digital marine guardians: bridging research and outreach through 3D surface scanning and mobile communication tools

Tabris Yik To Chung, Brian Chin Wing Kot, Henry Chun Lok Tsui

Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Jockey Club College of Veterinary Medicine and Life Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China

Historical Ecology applied to sea turtles

Willemien de Kock

University of Groningen, Netherlands, The

Turtle Friendly Village: an approach to a sustainable community-based strategy for the conservation of Hawksbill turtle in Melaka, Malaysia

Azzakirat Raman, Lau Min Min

WWF-Malaysia, Melaka Hawksbill Conservation Project, 78300 Masjid Tanah, Melaka

Corporate partnerships: Greenwashing or valuable support for sea turtle organizations?

Janin Bartoschek¹, Kate Yeoman², Jatmiko Wiwoho³

1: Turtle Foundation, Germany; 2: Fundação Tartaruga, Cabo Verde; 3: Yayasan Penyu Indonesia

Role of community participation in the prevention of sea turtle illegal activity in Bocas del Toro, Panama.

Raul Garcia¹, Roldan Valverde²

1: Sea turtle conservancy, Panama; 2: Southeastern Louisiana university, USA

Going beyond the reference genome in loggerhead turtle conservation genomics

Astrid Luna-Ortiz^1,12, Alessia Cherin^1,12, Alberto Abreu-Grobois², David J. Duffy³, Abdulmaula Hamza^4,5, Elizabeth Labastida-Estrada⁶, César P. Ley-Quiñónez⁷, Raúl Llera-Herrera², Salima Machkour M`Rabet⁸, Adolfo Marco⁹, Dimitris Margaritoulis¹⁰, Oguz Turkozan¹¹, Alan Zavala-Norzagaray⁷, Cinta Pegueroles^1,13, Marta Pascual1^1,13, Carlos Carreras^1,13

1: University of Barcelona and IRBio, Spain; 2: Unidad Académica Mazatlan, Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Apartado Postal 811, Mazatlan, Sinaloa 82000 Mexico; 3: The Whitney Laboratory for Marine Bioscience and Sea Turtle Hospital, University of Florida, St. Augus-tine, FL, 32080, USA); 4: Libyan Sea Turtle Program, Environment General Authority, Alfateh University, PO Box 13793, Tripoli, Libya; 5: Biology Department, Faculty of Education, University of Tripoli, souk Aljomoa, Tripoli, Libya.; 6: Colección Nacional de Helmintos. Departamento de Zoología. Instituto de Biología. Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; 7: Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigación para el Desarrollo Integral Regio-nal Unidad Sinaloa, Departamento de Medio Ambiente.; 8: Laboratorio de Ecología Molecular y Conservación, El Colegio de la Frontera Sur Unidad Chetumal; 9: Department of Biodiversity Conservation, Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC, Americo Vespucio s/n, 41092, Seville, Spain; 10: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Solomou 57, GR-10432 Athens, Greece; 11: Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 09010 Aydın, Turkey; 12: Should be considered first authors; 13: Should be considered senior authors

Genome drivers of adaptation in the Mediterranean loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) nesting populations.

Anna Barbanti¹, Dimitris Margaritoulis², ALan F. Rees², Oguz Turkozan³, Celal Ulger³, Mona Khalil⁴, Robin Snape^5,6, Broderick Annette C⁶, Andreas Demetropoulos⁷, A. Abdulmaula Hamza^8,9, Yaniv Levy^10,11, Marta Pascual^1,12, Carlos Carreras^1,12, Cinta Pegueroles^1,12

1: Department of Genetics, Microbiology and Statistics and IrBio, University of Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, E-08028, Barcelona, Spain; 2: ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece, Solomou 57, Athens, Greece; 3: Aydın Adnan Menderes University, Faculty of Science, Department of Biology, 09010 Aydın, Turkey; 4: MEDASSET, PO Box 19, Tyre, Lebanon; 5: Society for Protection of Turtles, Kyrenia, Cyprus; 6: Centre for Ecology and Conservation, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Exeter, Penryn, UK; 7: Cyprus Wildlife Society, Nicosia, Cyprus; 8: Biology Department, Faculty of Education, University of Tripoli, souk Aljomoa, Tripoli Libya.; 9: Libyan Sea Turtle Program, Environment General Authority, Alfateh University, PO Box 13793, Tripoli, Libya; 10: Israel Sea Turtle Rescue Center, National Nature and Parks Authority, Gan Leumi Beit Yannay, Kfar Vitkin, Israel; 11: Department of Marine Biology, Leon H. Charney School of Marine Sciences, University of Haifa, Haifa 3498838, Israel; 12: Should be considered senior authors

Overview of the population genetics and connectivity of sea turtles in the East Asia Region and their conservation implications

Connie Ka Yan Ng^1,2, Takashi Ishihara^3,4, Tomoko Hamabata⁵, Hideaki Nishizawa⁶, Min Liu⁷, Jia Hao Song⁷, Tsung Hsien Li^8,9,10, Chia Ling Fong^11,12,13, Dae Yeon Moon¹⁴, Il Hun Kim¹⁵

1: Department of Chemistry and State Key Laboratory of Marine Pollution, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, People’s Republic of China; 2: Golden Honu Services of Oceania, Hawaii, U.S.A.; 3: Sea Turtle Association of Japan, Hirakata, Osaka, Japan; 4: AQUARIUM x ART átoa, Kobe, Hyogo, Japan; 5: Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan; 6: Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan; 7: State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science and College of Ocean & Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, Fujian, People’s Republic of China; 8: National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium, Checheng, Pingtung 94450, Taiwan; 9: Department of Marine Biotechnology and Resources, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan; 10: Institute of Marine Ecology and Conservation, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan; 11: Biodiversity Research Centre, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan; 12: Biodiversity Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Academia Sinica and National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan; 13: TurtleSpot Taiwan, Pingtung, Taiwan; 14: Ocean&Fish Research, Kijang-gun, Busan, Republic of Korea; 15: Department of Ecology and Conservation, National Marine Biodiversity Institute of Korea, Seocheon 33662, Republic of Korea

Genetic diversity and phylogeographic patterns of mtDNA haplotypes of Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata) in Thailand

Worata Klinsawat¹, Sanit Piyapattanakorn², Preechayada Thaengthong², Thanida Haetrakul^3,4, Nitiwadee Keschumras³, Sirawich Srisiri³, Thanaphan Chomcheun⁵, Oranee Jongkolpath⁵, Nantarika Chansue⁴, Stephen G. Dunbar^6,7

1: Conservation Ecology Program, School of Bioresources and Technology, King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, 10150 Thailand; 2: Center of Excellence for Marine Biotechnology, Department of Marine Science, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330 Thailand; 3: Veterinary Medical Aquatic Animal Research Center of Excellence, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330 Thailand; 4: Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330 Thailand; 5: Eastern Marine and Coastal Resources Research and Development Center, Department of Marine and Coastal Resources, Rayong, 21170, Thailand; 6: Marine Research Group, Department of Earth and Biological Sciences, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, 92350 USA; 7: Protective Turtle Ecology Center for Training, Outreach, and Research, Inc. (ProTECTOR, Inc.), Loma Linda, California, 92350 USA

Genome-wide SNPs refine population connectivity and show promise for fine-scale genetic stock identification in Gulf of Mexico loggerhead turtles

Ian Silver-Gorges¹, Lisa M. Komoroske², Jamie Adkins Stoll², John D. Swenson², David S. Addison³, Kristen M. Hart⁴, Jacob Lasala⁵, Anton D. Tucker⁵, Brian M. Shamblin⁶, Mariana M.P.B. Fuentes¹

1: Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA; 2: Department of Environmental Conservation, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA; 3: Conservancy of Southwest Florida, Naples, FL, USA; 4: United States Geological Survey, Wetland and Aquatic Research Center, Davie, FL, USA; 5: Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL, USA; 6: Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA

Small ontogenetic changes in sex ratios at the largest loggerhead turtle rookery in the North Pacific

Hideo Hatase, Shun Watanabe, Toru Kobayashi

Kindai University, Japan

Non-lethal sex determination in turtles using DNA methylation.

Eugenie C. Yen¹, James D. Gilbert¹, Alice Balard¹, Inês O. Afonso¹, Kirsten Fairweather², Artur Lopes², Sandra M. Correia³, Albert Taxonera², Christophe Eizaguirre¹

1: Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom; 2: Associação Projeto Biodiversidade, Local 26, Santa Maria 4111, Ilha do Sal, Cabo Verde; 3: Instituto do Mar, Cova de Inglesa, C.P. 132. Mindelo, Ilha do São Vicente, Cabo Verde

A road map for the Marine Turtle Conservation Act

Ann Marie Lauritsen

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States of America

Global trends in sea turtle research and conservation: Using symposium abstracts to assess past biases and future opportunities

Nathan Jack Robinson^1,2, Jacopo Aguzzi^1,3, Sofia Arias¹, Christopher Gatto⁴, Sophie Mills⁵, Andrea Monte⁶, Laura St.Andrews⁷, Adam Yaney-Keller⁴, Pilar Santidrian Tomillo⁸

1: Institut De Ciences Del Mar, Spain; 2: Fundación Oceanogràfic de la Comunitat Valenciana, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, Valencia, Spain; 3: Stazione Zoologica di Napoli (SZN) Anton Dohrn, 80121 Naples, Italy; 4: School of Biological Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, Australia; 5: Marine Turtle Research, Ecology and Conservation Group, Department of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, FL, USA; 6: Bio-Ecologia Marina, Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy; 7: Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University Fort Wayne, Fort Wayne, IN, United States; 8: Animal Demography and Ecology Unit, GEDA, Institut Mediterrani d′Estudis Avançats (CSIC-UIB), Miquèl Marques 21, 01790 Esporles, Spain

The MTSG Burning Issues Initiative: The long and winding road to a shared understanding of global sea turtle conservation priorities by and for the people who care about them

Marine Turtle Specialist Group Burning Issues Working Group

IUCN Marine Turtle Specialist Group

Marine turtles at the Saudi Arabian Vision 2030 Programme: conservation hotspots, distribution, migratory pathways in the Red Sea

Hector Barrios-Garrido¹, Abdulrazaq Alatawi², Ali Algohane², Ali Mumtaz³, Judy Salamah³, Noura Islam³, Takahiro Shimada⁴, Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem⁵, Natalie Wildermann⁶, Ivor Williams³, Omar Al Attas³, Carlos Duarte⁶, Ricardo Ramalho²

1: Beacon Development, KAUST Innovation, Saudi Arabia. University of Zulia, Venezuela. TropWATER, Australia; 2: Beacon Development, KAUST Innovation, Saudi Arabia.; 3: Red Sea Global, Saudi Arabia; 4: Aquatic Threatened Species Program, Queensland Government. Australia; 5: KAUST, Saudi Arabia; 6: ​​Tarek Ahmed Juffali Research Chair in Red Sea Ecology, KAUST. Saudi Arabia

Two decades of dedicated conservation: An overview of TREE Foundation’s impact on sea turtle conservation along the east coast of India”

Supraja Dharini

TREE Foundation, India

Sea turtles of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea: current research and threats

Lyndsey K. Tanabe

KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Marine turtle bycatch in six fishing bases in Indonesia: status and release-handling approach

Ranny R Yuneni¹, Chaerul Ahadi¹, Hendro Susanto², Imam M Zainuddin¹

1: WWF-Indonesia, Indonesia; 2: Wahana Bahari Community, Indonesia

Comparing Pacific loggerhead distribution models derived from satellite telemetry and fisheries observer records

Chris Long¹, Alexander Gaos², John Wang³, Summer Martin², Robert Ahrens³, Zachary Siders¹

1: Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatic Sciences, University of Florida, FL, USA; 2: Protected Species Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, USA; 3: Fisheries Research and Monitoring Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Honolulu, HI, USA

Assessing marine turtle bycatch in small-scale municipal fisheries in Northern Palawan, Philippines

Jessica Labaja¹, Larvin Arcena¹, Jemar Atay¹, Raymart Cacacha¹, Christian Gabo¹, Krizia Meryl Ecube¹, David Garcia¹, Jonard Juab¹, Azell Montederamos¹, Michael Osmond², Alyza Pabillore¹, Marynoll Susmeña¹, John Wang³, Tara Sayuri Whitty⁴, Alessandro Ponzo¹

1: Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, Philippines; 2: World Wildlife Fund US; 3: NOAA Fisheries - Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center; 4: Keiruna, Inc.

Spatiotemporal overlap between AIS-tracked longliners and loggerhead turtle foraging habitat in the open waters of the Western Indian Ocean

Jonathan R. Monsinjon¹, Sylvain Bonhommeau¹, Antoine Laforge^2,3, Philippe Gaspar², Anne Barat³, Olivier Bousquet^3,4, Stéphane Ciccione⁵, Claire Jean⁵, Mathieu Barret⁵, Katia Ballorain⁶, Mayeul Dalleau⁶, Philippe S. Sabarros^7,8, Pascal Bach⁷, Jérôme Bourjea⁷

1: Ifremer, DOI Délégation Océan Indien, F-97420 Le Port, La Réunion, France; 2: Mercator Ocean International, Toulouse, France; 3: LACy laboratory, University of La Réunion, Saint-Denis, La Réunion, France; 4: Institute for Coastal and Marine Research, Nelson Mandela University, Port-Elizabeth, South-Africa; 5: Kelonia, Marine Turtle Observatory and Rescue Center, Saint-Leu, La Réunion, France; 6: CEDTM (Centre d’Etude et de Découverte des Tortues Marines), Piton Saint-Leu, La Réunion, France; 7: MARBEC, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Ifremer, IRD, Sète, France; 8: IRD, Ob7, Sète, France

^Directing conservation attention into the water: identifying marine turtle bycatch hotspots in Iran

Mohsen Rezaie-Atagholipour¹, Haleh Ali Abedi¹, Majid Askari-Hesni², Amirmozafar Hosseini³, Roghayeh Rafiee², Ali Reza Rastgoo⁴, Hanieh Rostamabadi², Najmeh Sabbah⁵, Nicolas J. Pilcher⁶

1: Qeshm Environmental Conservation Institute (QECI), Qeshm Island, Hormozgan, Iran; 2: Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran; 3: Department of Marine Biology, Faculty of Marine Science, Khoramshahr Marine Science and Technology University, Khoramshahr, Khuzestan, Iran; 4: Hormozgan’s Department of Environment, Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan, Iran; 5: Department of Biology, Guilan University, Guilan, Iran; 6: Marine Research Foundation, 88450 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia

Developing best handling and release practices for fishers with fishers: the importance of detail

Maria Luz Parga¹, Sandra Andraka²

1: SUBMON, Spain; 2: EcoPacific+

Impacts of x-press pearl ship disaster on sea turtles and their habitats in Sri Lanka

Thushan Kapurusinghe, Himali Purnima Kahawita, Kavindu Maduhansa Kapurusinghe, Uthpala Wickramasinghe, Elizebeth Jayangani Theswa, Manuri Pankaja Kapurusinghe

Turtle Conservation Project, Sri Lanka

Sea turtles in the North Pacific Garbage Patch: observations during The Ocean Cleanup operations

Maíra Carneiro Proietti^1,2, Marjolein van Vulpen¹, Débora Fanzeres¹, Ahmad Damaj¹, Peter Pusick¹, Matthias Egger¹

1: The Ocean Cleanup, The Netherlands; 2: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil

Harnessing citizen science for assessing injury and recovery patterns of green and hawksbill turtles in the Egyptian Red Sea.

Micol Montagna¹, Maja Zamencka¹, Valeria Roma¹, Abdallah Rabie Taher¹, Agnese Mancini^1,2

1: Marine Life Watch, Egypt - TurtleWatch Egypt 2.0; 2: Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias AC, Mexico

Not skipping a beat: behavioral response of leatherback turtles from controlled exposures to a metronomic mobile impulsive sound

Samir Patel¹, Kate Choate², Leah Crowe², Farrell Davis¹, Erin Fischell³, Heather Haas⁴, Josh Hatch⁴, Ryan Munnelly¹, Victoria Oriole¹, Rick Rogers²

1: Coonamessett Farm Foundation, East Falmouth, MA, USA; 2: Integrated Statistics contract to NEFSC, Woods Hole, MA, USA; 3: Acbotics Research, East Falmouth, MA, USA; 4: Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA

Role of visual and olfactory cues on prey recognition and plastic ingestion in sea turtles

Hee-Jin Noh¹, Won Joon Shim¹, Gi Myung Han¹, Yelim Moon¹, Eun Vit Cho², Sang Hee Hong¹

1: Ecological Risk Assessment Research Department, Korea Institute of Ocean Science & Technology, Korea, Republic of Korea; 2: Department of Aqua, Aqua planet Yeosu, Republic of Korea

An Assessment of the nurdles pollution and its impact on sea turtle nesting along the coastal belt in Southern and Western coastal belt in Sri Lanka, due to the maritime disaster of MV X-Press Pearl cargo ship.

Thushan Kapurusinghe, Thalatha Ranasinghe, Mithma De Silva, Kavindu Kapurusinghe, Vasantha Pahalawattaarachchi, Dayani Bodhipala

Turtle Conservation Project (TCP) - Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka

Threats and pressures facing an endangered population of loggerhead turtles in Boa Vista, Cabo Verde

Kathryn Yeoman¹, Katia Lopes², Maria Medina³, Ivone Monteiro⁴, Thomas Reischig⁵

1: Fundação Tartaruga; 2: Bios.CV; 3: Cabo Verde Natura 2000; 4: Ministério de Agricultura e Ambiente de Cabo Verde; 5: Turtle Foundation, Germany

Sea turtle egg harvesting in Tambelan (Indonesia) and possible solutions

Yuliana Fitri Syamsuni¹, Ranny Ramadhani Yuneni¹, Chaerul Ahadi¹, Monique Sumampouw²

1: WWF Indonesia, Indonesia; 2: WWF Netherlands, Netherlands

Overview of a 16-year loggerhead nesting trend, poaching and the use of hatcheries in response to increasing tourism and related threats on Sal Island, Cabo Verde.

Kirsten Fairweather, Artur Lopes, Anice Lopes, Berta Renom, Albert Taxonera

Associação Projeto Biodiversidade, Cape Verde

Cleaning up beaches, protecting nesting grounds, building artificial reefs, promoting local economies: re-thinking our strategies to reduce bycatch of critically endangered species.

Agnese Mancini¹, Isabel Miranda Marín¹, Yadira Trejo Hernandez¹, Anibal Lopez Murillo¹, Diana Arely Ramos de la Torre⁵, Raquel Briseño Dueñas⁴, Brigido Angelito Marín¹, Arturo Noyola¹, Carlos Delgado Trejo², Alan Zavala Norzagaray³, Chuy Lucero¹, Karen Oceguera¹, Catherine Hart⁶, Bryan P. Wallace⁷, Jefffrey A. Seminoff⁸

1: Grupo Tortuguero de las Californias, Mexico; 2: Universidad Michoacana de san Nicolas de Hidalgo; 3: CIIDIR-IPN, Guasave; 4: UNAM; 5: Universidad Técnologica de Escuinapa; 6: Gran Acuario Mazatlán; 7: Ecolibrium; 8: NOAA

Re-migrating to local shores: reintegrating community participation in protecting the most significant nesting site in Maldives, L. Gaadhoo

Enas Mohamed Riyaz¹, Ibrahim Inaan², Isha Afeef²

1: Environmental Protection Agency, Handhuvaree Hingun, Malé, Republic of Maldives; 2: Olive Ridley Project Maldives, H. Kaneerumaage, Dhonhuraa Goalhi, Malé, 20037, Republic of Maldives

Hatcheries, hatchling retention, and headstarting - discussing their conservation value

Hiltrud Cordes¹, Thomas Reischig¹, Meriussoni Zai²

1: Turtle Foundation; 2: Yayasan Penyu Indonesia

Cocomesh as a nest shading material to lower sand surface temperatures at Jeen Yessa beach at the Bird's Head region of Papua, Indonesia

Deasy Natalia Lontoh¹, Yusup Adrian Jentewo¹, Arfiandra Andika Wanaputra¹, Tonny Willem Duwiri¹, Fitryanti Pakiding^1,2, Manjula Tiwari³

1: Science for Conservation Program, Research and Community Service Institute of Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat 98314, Indonesia; 2: Department of Agricultural Technology, Universitas Papua, Manokwari, Papua Barat 98314, Indonesia; 3: Ocean Ecology Network, Research Affiliate of NOAA—Southwest Fisheries Science Center, La Jolla, California 92037, USA

A new Olive Ridley hope spot: a preliminary assessment of marine turtles nesting in Palawan, Philippines

Sharah Marie Barredo¹, Mark Philip Acosta², Myla Adriano³, Franklin Aquino⁵, Lorraine Aplasca¹, Geraldine Benavente², Titus Canete¹, Lowee Lyn Castillo¹, Rufino Clavecilla⁴, Mary Cris Ibanez⁵, Ronnie del Rosario⁷, Edilita B. Demonguitan⁸, Ian Echanes⁹, Leopoldo Jr. Francisco¹⁰, Lina Flor³, Elma Koster⁶, Jessica Labaja¹, Teodoro Jose S. Matta¹¹, Daryl Licerio¹², Elizabeth Maclang¹³, Rene Manibale⁷, Dixie Marinas¹⁴, Curt Ivan Mariano¹, Irene Meca¹⁵, Azell Montederamos¹, Arty Moreno¹⁴, Leah Natural¹⁶, Clarissa Pador¹⁷, Marilyn Panda³, Alessandro Ponzo¹, Bergenius Shalah¹³, Sally Snow¹, Mildred Suza¹⁸, Ma. Vivian Soriano¹⁹, Rizza Araceli F. Salinas²⁰

1: Large Marine Vertebrates Research Institute Philippines, Italy; 2: Port Barton Marine Park (PBMP), San Vicente Palawan, Philippines; 3: City Environment and Natural Resources Office, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines; 4: Municipal Agriculture Office, San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines; 5: Community Environment and Natural Resources Office, Brooke’s Point, Palawan, Philippines; 6: Duli Beach Resort, El Nido, Palawan, Philippines; 7: Alimanguan Sagip Pawikan, San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines; 8: Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines; 9: Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office, San Vicente, Palawan; 10: Tabang Para Sa Kabataan, San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines; 11: Palawan Council For Sustainable Development, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines; 12: Palawan Council for Sustainable Development, Taytay, Palawan, Philippines; 13: Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines; 14: Club Agutaya San Vicente, Palawan, Philippines; 15: Amanpulo, Pamalican Island, Cuyo Palawan, Philippines; 16: Municipal Agriculture Office, Kalayaan, Palawan, Philippines; 17: Malampaya Sound Protected Landscape and Seascape, Taytay, Palawan, Philippines; 18: El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area, Palawan, Philippines; 19: Community Environment and Natural Resources Office, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines; 20: Department of Environment and Natural Resources Biodiversity Management Bureau, Quezon City, Manila, Philippines