In 2011 a project was initiated to track 34 loggerheads found in Amvrakikos Gulf, Greece.

<p>Original provider: ARCHELON&nbsp;</p><p>Dataset credits: Data provider ARCHELON (2004-2007)&nbsp;</p><p>Originating data center: <a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/">Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a></p><p>Supplemental information: <a href="http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=1314">Visit STAT's project page</a> for additional information.&nbsp;</p><p>This dataset is a summarized representation of the telemetry locations aggregated per species per 1-degree cell.</p>

<p>In 2004, an important new green turtle rookery was dicovered in Syria. Follow up work discovered sea turtles are being utilised as food in the country and are being negatively impacted by fisheries interaction. In 2006 we are continuing the vital work from the last years and tracking a green turtle to identify her internesting habitat and post breeding migration. This was originally planned for 2005 but not realised due to the low nesting levels that year.</p>

<p>The project aims at developing a joint cross-border strategy for maintenance of biodiversity and conservation of the population of <i>Caretta caretta</i>, a sea turtle species seriously threatened by the impact of human activities.&nbsp;</p><p>Main foreseen actions:&nbsp;<br>Development of a Management Model for marine areas<br>Management Plans for the Marine areas involved, through elaboration of bathymetric and habitat maps, identifying stress factors&nbsp;<br>Implementation of a GIS to share information resulting from maps setting a Tank of First Recovery for the protection of <i>C. caretta</i><br>A Database collecting information on survey coasts report, areas of potential nesting; biometric data, web GIS movements of the 20 specimens paths through ARGOS satellite system&nbsp;<br>An Action Plan for the protection of the population of sea turtles&nbsp;<br>A cross-border Association providing exchange of expertise and the identification of joint objectives for conservation.</p>

<p>Little is known of the foraging turtles in Amvrakikos Bay. We have tag returns from turtles that have nested at the three nearby Ionian nesting areas, Kefalonia, Zakynthos and Kyparissia Bay, but when they come and go and where they move around in the bay was unknown. This project has helped to answer some of these important conservation issues.</p>

<p>The turtles tracked in this project are of the first loggerheads to be tracked during their postnesting migration from a Greek nesting beach. The project is carried out by the division of Conservation Biology of the University of Berne (Switzerland) in collaboration with ARCHELON, the Sea Turtle Protection Society of Greece. Zakynthos is the largest known sea turtle nesting area of the Mediterranean, hosting about 1/4 of all known loggerhead nesting in the Mediterranean. The nesting beaches of Zakynthos are monitored by ARCHELON since 1983.&nbsp;</p>