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Keeping Vanuatu's beaches turtle friendly

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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Follow these guidelines to: make it easier for female turtles to crawl up the beach to lay their eggs, Make it safe for hatchlings to crawl down the beach to the sea , Protect the nests from damge, Protect important turtle habitat.

Garder les plages du Vanuatu accueillantes pour les tortues

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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Suivez ces directives pour: Faciliter la montée des tortues femelles sur la plage pour pondre leurs oeufs Sécuriser la descente des bébés tortues vers la mer Protéger les nids des dommages Préserver l’habitat essentiel des tortues

Regional Turtle Ranger Exchange Report

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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This turtle ranger exchange followed a 2-day workshop with government officials from across the Pacific to discuss turtle policies, enforcement, and sustainability issues. It is recognised that governments and communities must work together to ensure that turtles continue to play a part in Pacific ecosystems and cultures. This learning exchange provided an opportunity for turtle monitors and rangers across the Pacific to come together to share and learn from each other, build their knowledge and capacity and connect with other turtle monitors within their country as well as regionally with the view to help form strong alliances and cross-border data sharing as our migratory turtle species connect us. The BIEM is funded by the European Union with additional support from the Government of Sweden for the BIEM Initiative under the Pacific European Marine Partnership (PEUMP) programme. Participants from the 5 BIEM countries (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu), as well as Australia (online) were invited to participate. Papua New Guinea was also only able to participate via online in some sessions. Participants were nominated by governments and/or partners in each country. The exchange was aimed at turtle rangers working on the ground to protect nesting beaches and turtle populations. Exchange Objectives The overall objectives of the Forum included: 1. Provide opportunity for turtle monitors and rangers across the Pacific to share and learn from each other. 2. Extend latest research, techniques, best practice approaches and training opportunities for turtle monitoring, data collection and related activities with turtle monitors and rangers. 3. Provide a platform/place to share cross-border/transboundary learning and data and form stronger alliances to conserve marine turtles across their full life history.

Extinction Risk Analyses for Sea Turtles in the Pacific Region

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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Pilcher, Nicolas J.

This report addresses risks to extinction for sea turtle populations in the Pacific, specifically for countries and island territories within the SPREP region. The extinction risk analysis has been made based on modeled scenarios given much of the region suffers from data uncertainty in terms of biological attributes of sea turtle populations.

Vanuatu National Plan of Action for Seabirds, Sharks and Marine Turtles 2024-2028

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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Seabirds, sharks and marine turtles are important apex species in the marine food-chain, and they maintain marine ecosystem health. These resources are caught as bycatch of commercial fisheries and some species are a source of food security and livelihoods with cultural values to some coastal communities in Vanuatu.

Turtle research and monitoring database: a TREDS of summary Pacific turtle data recorded from 1970 to 2018

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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The Turtle Research and monitoring Database System (TREDS) was developed in 1993, to allow members of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to store, collate, and organise their data for research, monitoring and reporting. This tool is intended to assist members in making informed decisions regarding turtle conservation in the region. The dataset extracted from TREDS is from 1970 to 2018 and has been manipulated for the chapters covered in this report. The difference in dates for the establishment of TREDS in 1993 and the beginning of the date of the dataset of 1970 is simply due to users submitting their existing turtle data from 1970 once the database was launched in 1993, since many users saw the importance of TREDS as a lepository for storing their historical turtle data that was probably stored in paper format or on computers that would be susceptible to corruption or crashes. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the data contained within TREDS since its development up until its upgrade to a web-based online database platform. The last TREDS Annual Report was published in 2009 with subsequent Country reports published until 2015.

Solomon Islands National Plan of Action for Marine Turtles 2023-2027 Information Sheet

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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The Solomon Islands National Plan of Action for Marine Turtles 2023 - 2027 was formally launched on 17 July 2024. The NPOA will support the maintenance of healthy populations of marine turtles that nest and forage in Solomon Islands, for the benefit of Solomon Islanders. All species of marine turtles are threatened with extinction, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species.

Solomon Islands National Plan of Action for Marine Turtles 2023-2027

SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation

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It is through ministerial leadership with relevant stakeholders and partners’ collaboration that produces and finalizes the Solomon Islands National Plan of Action for Marine Turtles (NPOA) 2023-2027. This has gone through important strategic consultative process, which embraces strong collaborations with both the international and regional partners in response to national calls for sustainable management of marine turtles in Solomon Islands and the Pacific region. The NPOA envisions the need to protect, manage and sustainably utilize marine turtles in Solomon Islands for the benefit of Solomon Islanders. This further demonstrates the Solomon Islands Government’s commitment to fulfill regional and international obligations under relevant conventions relating to the conservation of marine turtles.

Freedivers harvest thousands of sea turtles a year in the Solomon Islands

Biodiversity Conservation

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Hamilton, Richard

1. Sea turtles are harvested in many small-scale fisheries (SSFs), but few nations have quantified the impacts that SSFs are having on their sea turtle stocks. This study provides the first assessment on the catch composition, national harvest rates,and long-term trends in sea turtle catches in the Solomon Islands SSFs. 2. Between October 2016 and May 2018, 10 community monitors located in eight of the nine provinces of the Solomon Islands were trained and employed to work alongside fishers in their respective communities to document, photograph, and geo-reference the reefs where sea turtles were harvested. Local ecological knowledge (LEK) surveys were then conducted with 32 experienced fishers to infer whether the harvest rates of sea turtles had changed in recent decades. 3. Community monitors recorded information on 1,132 sea turtles that were harvested on 529 fishing trips:1,119 sea turtles were identified to species level, with harvests consisting of 73.3% (n=818) green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), 25.7% hawksbill sea turtles (n=291) (Eretmochelys imbricata), and 0.9% (n=10) olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea). 4. The great majority (92.6%) of sea turtles were captured by night-time and daytime freedivers who use masks, snorkels, fins, hooks, spears, and underwater flashlights to target a wide range of fauna that inhabit coral reefs.

Trialling seawater irrigation to combat the high nest temperature feminisation of green turtle Chelonia mydas hatchlings

Biodiversity Conservation

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Smith, CE

Global increases in beach sand temperatures are predicted to skew hatchling sexratios of marine turtle populations towards female bias. Currently, shade structures and fresh-water irrigation are management strategies used to cool nest temperatures, but require resources that are limited at remote rookeries. Here, we report on a novel investigation that used seawater irrigation as a sand-cooling method. Various volumes of seawater were applied to sand to deter-mine the optimal application required to lower sand temperatures at nest depth to produce male-biased sex ratios.

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