Organised by SOS Tartarugas, the workshops are for anyone who would like to volunteer to work alongside SOS Rangers or for anyone who would simply like to know more about turtles.  

The workshop will cover basic biology and life cycle, conservation and protection activities and how to get involved.  Beginning at 7pm at Turtle House, Tuesday’s workshop is in English and Wednesday’s will be in Portuguese, other languages can be catered for on request.  For more information and for directions to Turtle House please email info@turtlesos.org or call 974 5020.

150 bags of approximately 4,000kgs of rubbish were removed from Costa Fragata yesterday, World Ocean Day.  The big clean up will be of great benefit to the nesting turtles who will start coming ashore in the next few days.  The clean up was a joint effort incorporating the European expatriate community, SOS Tartarugas, WWF, Camara Municiapl do Sal, the Adventist church, the armed forces and many other individuals.  The majority of the rubbish is washed up on the east coast from Africa and from fishing boats.  The vast majority of the rubbish removed is fishing net and discarded plastic items.

Rubbish on the beaches can deter turtles from nesting and hinders hatchlings on their way to the sea.

The new initiative is designed to support several non-governmental organisations in Cape Verde with protecting and monitoring nesting loggerheads. It is thought up to 25% of nesting female loggerheads are killed annually in the archipelago by illegal poaching.

Source Yubanet.com

These islands have a long history of exploitation of their marine resources.
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