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Kélonia



Monitoring The Marine Turtles Of The Iles Eparses




Glorieuses Islands


Europa Island


 In 1975 staff of the Farm Corail, now Kelonia, joined staff from IFREMER in a long term project to monitor the nesting populations of turtles on the islands of Europa, Tromelin, Juan de Nova and the Glorious Islands.

Every day nesting tracks are counted by resident police or meteorologists and all results are entered into the IFREMER/ Kelonia data base. Marine turtles are long lived animals and long term monitoring programmes are necessary to understand their reproductive biology.

Ifremer web-site


PUBLICATIONS

Reproductive seasonality and trend
of Chelonia mydas in the southwestern Indian ocean, a 20 year study based on trak counts.
Lauret-stepler M., Bourjea J., Roos D., Pelletier D., Ryan PG., Ciccione S., Grisel H.
(2007) (accepted) Endangered Species Research. 

TAAF web-site

Kélonia, the observatory of marine turtles
Saint-Leu, La Réunion, France