Sea Turtle as marine conservation efforts in Bangladesh

In Bangladesh Marinelife Alliance is conducting monitoring and conservation of marine megafauna including sea turtle, cetacean, sharks and coral habitat restoration. Under the sea turtle program this is an integrated efforts... [ view full abstract ]

In Bangladesh Marinelife Alliance is conducting monitoring and conservation of marine megafauna including sea turtle, cetacean, sharks and coral habitat restoration. Under the sea turtle program this is an integrated efforts to save other marine megafauna species within the effort through community people including offshore fishermen. The program has been supported by internationals organization and Bangladesh government. The sea turtle program activities are nesting turtle monitoring, threat reduction and mitigation, community awareness, education, beach protection, nesting beach restoration, advocacy, bycatch reduction, fishermen training for offshore bycatch monitoring, and safe release at sea. Migration, movement and foraging habitat study are being conducted by satellite tracking and also by VHF radio tracking. Beach temperature being monitored by dataloggers that helping us tracking climate change activities. The efforts are spread over the last 20 years along the whole Bangladesh coast including 400kms of sandy beach where sea turtle are come to nest. 50-70 community people are engaged for nightly observation on the nesting turtle and for their safety while nesting on beach. this huge manpower also help monitoring and conservation of other key marine and coastal species viz., cetacean, sea birds and shorebirds and whale sharks.