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Vote for Island Conservation to help us win a $5000 grant for sea turtle conservation on Loosiep Island, Ulithi Atoll. Island Conservation has been afforded the exciting opportunity of participating in the Island Restoration Network’s Summer Sea Turtle Sustainability contest (vote here). This contest presents Island Conservation with an opportunity to receive a $5,000 grant […]
Island Conservation and our partners at One People One Reef are working together to remove invasive rats, monitor lizards, and feral pigs from Loosiep Island, Ulithi Atoll with the goal of restoring seabird and sea turtle populations. In 2019, Island Conservation worked with the community to rid Loosiep Island, Ulithi Atoll of feral pigs and planned […]
Conservationists are seeing an increase in the threat that invasive rats pose to sea turtle eggs and hatchlings on Tetiaroa Atoll. Warning: Graphic video. Viewer Discretion is Advised. Sea turtle populations around the world are facing population declines. Six of the seven species of sea turtles are considered threatened and while there are a number […]
Restoration efforts on Ulithi Atoll aim to protect sea turtle nesting habitat and revive traditional community practices. On Ulithi Atoll, Federated States of Micronesia, the local community, the Ulithi Falalop Community Action Program (UFCAP), Island Conservation, and One People One Reef (OPOR) are coming together to remove invasive monitor lizard and rat populations. The Atoll […]
British Indian Ocean Territory, 10 April 2017: Conservationists from the Chagos Conservation Trust announce the first successful removal of invasive black rats in the Chagos Archipelago. Success! Conservationists with the Chagos Conservation Trust (CCT) are celebrating the news of a successful restoration mission to remove invasive rats from Ile Vache Marine. The Chagos Archipelago region rests just […]
The Green Sea Turtle is making a comeback! This endangered species had a successful year of breeding in 2015 at Florida’s Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge. Researchers found 14,152 nests at the end of the egg-laying season. Since green sea turtles lay around 75 to 200 eggs per nest, the season may have produced as […]