#Green Turtle

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Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas) 🐢

Honestly throughout my scuba diving journey, I haven't seen green turtles while diving, only hawksbill until my most recent dive trip. I got to see a total of 3 green turtles underwater and it was cool experience:) A bonus nesting mother out of water as well. 4 green turtles on the trip:) Omnivorous when they are juveniles and move more into a herbivorous diet of seagrass and algae as adults.

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just keep swimming 🐢✨️

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A green turtle at Ningaloo Reef

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Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas)

Photo by Jordi Chias

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George Shiras 3rd :: Little screech owl. Published in Hunting wild life with camera and flashlight : a record of sixty-five years’ visits to the woods and waters of North America. Volume II, National Geographic Society, 1935. | src Memorial University of Newfoundland

Little screech owl. “Driven from shelter, he glares at the world.”

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Drew this at a Green Turtle, think I’m fancy now!

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Pulptober Prompts 2023 Themes Elaborated, Part Four

Since I didn't do one yesterday, you get two today. Your welcome.

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

And Here. We. Go.

16-The Blackhawks/Men of War: Another relatively straightforward one. It will not surprise anyone who remembers the theme from the Oct. 12th that quite a few Pulp stories place their heroes in actual, rather than metaphorical wars. Given the era the Pulps rose to prominence, these are often the World Wars, but there are Pulp Heroes depicted as fighting in conflicts all over the world and throughout history. Today is for them. Alternates: Chevalier de Trelern*+, Enemy Ace, Sgt. Rock and Easy Company*

17-Dejah Thoris/Beauty and Badassery: While far from universal, it is not surprising that Pulp Heroes, like the protagonists of most fiction, tend to be attractive. These characters take it a step further; they're not just good-looking, they're exceptionally so, and their looks are a regular plot point, used as a tool in their arsenal. Alternates: James Bond, Joanna Tan, Barbarella

18-The Rocketeer/Average Joe Justice: Pulp Heroes are exceptional. They're smarter, stronger, faster, braver, and bolder than most people. But they don't always see it that way. These Pulp Heroes are convinced that they are regular working stiffs, ordinary people who have simply stumbled into something extraordinary and are just bumbling along trying to make it out alive. Whether they're right is for you, the reader or viewer, to decide. Alternates: The Green Turtle+, Ash Williams, Jack Burton

19-Ogon Bat/Weird Justice: Another straightforward one. Pulp is an often liminal genre in which people frequently experiment, and sometimes the results are...odd. Alternates: The Green Ghost*+, The Crimson Clown*+

20-Solomon Kane/Learning A Lesson: Even in the Pulps and their heirs, Character Development exists. These Heroes start out with ideas about what the world is like and over the course of their adventures, they learn that they may have been wrong, hopefully becoming better people in the process. Alternates...dammit, I had several of these in mind when I came up with this, but all of a sudden I'm drawing a blank. That's embarrassing.

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Galapagos green turtles - dining room table sized

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💚Turtle Moodboard🐢

Created by our wonderful Turtle friends! It's their first moodboard and they did an amazing job! (They don't have a Tumblr, and gave us permission to share here).

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We attached tracking devices to West Africa’s green turtles. This is what we learnt

- By Ana Rita Patricio , Martin Beal , The Conversation -

Sea turtles have been swimming the world’s oceans and nesting on its beaches for over 120 million years. They even survived mass extinction events, including the one that saw the end of the large dinosaurs.

Throughout human history sea turtles have played key roles in the culture and diet of coastal populations around the world. But in modern times, over-exploitation of sea turtle meat, eggs, cartilage, oil, and body parts, caused population declines and even local extinctions. They also face threats from plastic ingestion and climate change.

Among the seven species of sea turtles, the green turtle was historically the most exploited for human consumption. Green turtles are a key element of West Africa’s biodiversity heritage and contribute to the health of coastal marine ecosystems in the region. But protecting them is difficult, in part because they perform some of the longest migrations known in the animal kingdom.

These grand movements pose a major conservation challenge: how do we protect animals that cross international borders and can therefore experience varying levels of protection and human-caused threats?

We conducted research around the small island of Poilão off the coast of Guinea-Bissau. The island is part of the Bijagós archipelago which hosts one of the largest green turtle populations in the world. The core nesting site for this population is Poilão island where around 25,000 turtles make their nests annually.

Researchers attaching satellite tags on a green turtle. French Connection films

In our recent study, we glued tracking devices to the shells of green turtles to study their movements. These devices transmitted their locations to orbiting satellites, allowing us to know where they are in near real-time.

We used the turtles’ positions to map the marine areas they occupy and estimate how much time they spent within marine protected areas.

We found that the green turtles from Poilão connect at least five West African nations. Some turtles remained year-round in the waters of Guinea-Bissau or nearby in Guinea, to the south. Others travelled some 400 km north to feed in Senegal and The Gambia, or even as far as 1000 km northwards to the Bay of Arguin, in Mauritania.

Feeding sites of West Africa green turtles. Usifo Omozokpea / Frontiers in marine science

We concluded from our findings that meeting the challenge of protecting the sea turtles calls for international cooperation for conservation coupled with an understanding of the geographic connectivity that they create.

The life-cycle of green turtles

When newly hatched green turtles emerge from the nest, they quickly crawl to the sea and soon disappear from sight.

They spend the first three to five years in the vast open ocean, after which they approach the coast to settle in areas rich in food.

For a green turtle, beds of seagrass and macroalgae are the typical habitats they seek for nourishment.

Female green turtles only reach adulthood at about 20 years old, at which point they return to lay their eggs on the same sandy beach where they emerged as hatchlings all those years ago.

After breeding, they return to their feeding grounds and take a much needed break from travelling, mating, making and laying eggs, which usually lasts about three years.

The beach at Poilão is patrolled by conservation teams during the peak of the nesting season (August to November), granting protection to the turtles that come ashore to nest. But turtles don’t stay long on the beach. Within two hours they have laid their eggs and returned to the sea.

Throughout the course of a breeding season, females lay between three and six clutches of eggs, at 12-day intervals, after which they migrate to their feeding grounds.

As green turtles are known to migrate sometimes thousands of kilometres between nesting and feeding areas, knowing their whereabouts is essential to assessing what threats they may face along the way. For example, if turtles were heavily captured for their meat at faraway feeding areas, the efforts in place on the nesting beaches of Poilão would be fruitless.

Studying the movements of turtles from the Bijagós Archipelago was therefore necessary to understand what level of protection the population has while at sea.

Revelations from satellite tracking

The research was conducted in partnership with biodiversity managers from Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Mauritania, and provides a scientific basis for decision-making on effective conservation measures.

Based on the movements of the turtles, we were able to provide recommendations for conservation managers on how they could improve protection of important sites.

For example, we show for the first time that most of the coastal waters of the Bolama-Bijagós Biosphere Reserve in Guinea-Bissau are used as feeding grounds by this population. This is a strong argument for implementing fishing regulations in this reserve to reduce the risk of turtles being captured in fishing gear.

Poilão Island is a popular nesting place for green turtles. Miguel Varela

Our findings also show that the Regional Network of Marine Protected Areas of West Africa encompasses most of the habitats used by this important population. Turtles spent over 90% of their time inside the boundaries of the area during breeding, and 78% of their time when foraging.

However, we also identified locations, particularly during migration, where protection could be improved.

Our findings also have relevance for local communities in the region. For the Bijagós people it is a matter of pride that green turtles travel from so many different places to nest on their pristine beaches. Likewise, the Imraguen people, the sole residents of the Banc d’Arguin National Park, take pride in maintaining productive waters with vast seagrass beds, where green turtles can flourish.

Additionally, healthy sea turtle populations can promote eco-tourism through turtle watching activities, suggesting that the successful conservation of this globally important population may be economically beneficial to people across the region.

Ana Rita Patricio, Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Exeter and Martin Beal, Research Assistant, ISPA

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

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