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Activities on Malta in 2022
As the LIFE Euroturtles project came to an end, Nature Trust Malta have continued on with actions and activities aimed at sea turtle conservation. NTM are currently caring for 8 loggerhead turtles, which were rescued from Maltese waters with a variety of injuries from entanglement to boat hits. NTM are also in the process of […]
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Project update: Cyprus Marine Turtle Rescue Centre
The Department of Fisheries and Marine Research (DFMR) runs a marine turtle rescue centre located in the Cyprus Marine Aquaculture Research Centre (CyMARC) in Larnaca. For the period of 2016 – 2021 all turtles reported in need of treatment were transferred at the Meneou Turtle Rescue Center within the same day that they were reported. […]
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Success of the project on Cyprus
Cyprus Marine Turtle Nesting 2017-2020 Prior to the commencement of the LIFE Euroturtles project and specifically during 2017 nesting season, 973 nests were monitored and protected on the beaches that were considered for the project. During the 2018 nesting season, 1188 nests were monitored on the beaches considered for the LIFE Euroturtles Project. A total […]
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LIFE Euroturtles on regional TV magazine
In February 2022. Croatian TV brought a report for regional TV magazine – Alpe – Danube -Adriatic aired in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia on Turtle rescue centre on Lošinj that was upgraded thanks to LIFE EUroturtles project and project activities carried out during the project. More on this report on the web pages of the […]
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WWF Italy awareness events of 2021
Thanks to the extension of the project until December 2021, 48 awareness raising events were held in 2021 with the release of 31 turtles in Policoro, Maratea, Taranto, Noto, Scoglitti, Avola, Sciacca, Acireale e Mazara del Vallo. The news of 2021 was the presentation of the exhibition of the euroturtles project which was set up […]
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LIFE Euroturtles Project exhibition opened by mayor of Split
Although the LIFE Euroturtles project finished, interest of the public is not dwindling. In December Croatian Natural History Museum has delivered the exhibition to Natural History Museum Split. The exhibition has been additionally upgraded by curators of the Split museum and Croatian TV brought the news on 16. Dec 2021. (https://youtu.be/a1glZKt5q8c). Due to the holidays […]
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LIFE Euroturtles has officially ended
With last day of the year passing, LIFE Euroturtles has reached its finish. During 63 months nine partners from six European countries worked hard for conservation of sea turtles. When we started the project in September 2016. no one of us could even dream of all the trials that we, our partnership and the entire […]
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Final event in Croatia and project closing
Croatian Natural History Museum organised final event in Croatia on 22.12.20021. Unfortunately, due to catastrophic earthquake that hit Zagreb, CNHM has been heavily damaged and we had to evacuate our building. Therefore, and because of COVID19 pandemic, we were unable to organise the final event on a larger scale in our building. Still, we wanted […]
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Final LIFE Euroturtles conference
Croatian Natural History Museum and partners have organised LIFE Euroturtles final conference. The conference has unfortunately had to be organised on-line due to COVID19 pandemic. The invited participants included relevant authorities and managers who have been invited to join a network of managers for sea turtle conservation through which they can exchange relevant information and […]
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Final LIFE Euroturtles monitoring visit
During 14.12.2021. our project had final monitoring visit from Mr. Nikica Skroza from NEEMO. We have presented project progres and finalised activities and discussed preparation for development of the final report. At the end of the meeting the whole project partnership warmly thanked mr. Skroza for his help, support, advice and collaboration during last 5 […]
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