CASTIGLIONE DELLA PESCAIA – On the weekend of 25-26 May tartAmare is offering a workshop on “The nesting of sea turtles in Tuscany”. A two-day full immersion, with important speakers, to delve deeper into the biology and ecology of sea turtles, present tartAmare’s research projects, work in the field together with the Association’s experts in search of sea turtle traces on the beach , learn the monitoring methods, the safety of the nests up to the study of the embryos.
After the first day of theory, at the Turtle Recovery Center in Marina di Grosseto, students, sector operators and all those who want to learn the main notions to become expert volunteers, will meet at the Green Beach in Castiglione della Pescaia.
“The objective of our association – says Luana Papetti of tartAmare – is precisely to form a group of motivated people, who are aware of what they are doing, who are able not only to recognize the traces of the passage of turtles , but who know how monitoring should be done, how long after hatching occurs, all those good practices to allow sea turtles to continue nesting on our beaches. A course as complete and structured as the one we are proposing offers all the tools to become qualified volunteers.”
Sea turtles of the Caretta Caretta species have continued to choose the Castiglione coast to nest for years now. Last summer, two nests were identified and monitored by tartAmare, one in Roccamare and one on the beach of Punta Ala, with a very high success rate which led to many small turtles reaching the sea.
This year, on World Turtle Day, the first nest has already been identified in Sicily. tartAmare volunteers are also on alert on the Maremma coast, and will be able to count on the help of the new “Qualified Volunteers” who will have received the certificate of participation in the workshop.
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