Tag Archives: Hawksbill turtles

Feb
12
2013

Turtle update

It has been a great Hawksbill nesting season so far! Lots of hard work bringing great results and satisfaction that we are enabling a Critically Endangered species a better chance of survival into the future. During the month of January there were a total of 55 individual emergences, 29 successful nests and 4949 eggs recorded. Furthermore another [...]

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Nov
27
2012

The turtles have kept us so busy!

It is that time of the year again and our nesting Hawksbill and Green Turtles have been keeping us really busy! Just to give you an example, two days ago we had six turtles on the beach at the same time at different stages of nesting. With our intense monitoring and management of  turtles on [...]

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May
17
2011

Turtle season draws to a close

The last turtle nest for the season have hatched and the 80 little hatchlings were released to sea on the 14th of May 2011. This last season proved to be a real record breaker with a total of 230 nests laid during the period from the 24th of September 2010 to the 16th of March 2011. [...]

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Jan
31
2011

200 Nest mark reached!

We’ve recorded our 200th Hawksbill Turtle nest! We were very excited last season when we broke all records and had 113 nests for the whole breeding season. This year it wasn’t only broken, it was thrashed. Yesterday 3 females came up to nest, bringing our total number of nests up to date to the magic [...]

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Dec
21
2010

Hawksbill Turtles break nesting record, again!

The Hawksbill Turtles nesting on Cousine Island is certainly keeping us busy this year. After a record breaking season last year, we expected this year to be a bit slower. The turtles however had different plans. This year on the 20th December, we officially recorded nest number 114. This is already one nest more than [...]

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