Sea Turtle Multimedia Guide

It is available to download the fourth (the last one!) episode of the WebVDoc series "Sea Turtles in Cape Verde". It is a documentary series produced during the "beach" work months of the 2007 "Initiative for Conservation and Integrated Management of Sea Turtles in the Santiago Island - Cape Verde", carried by the Algarve University (Portugal) with the Lisbon Oceanarium support.

Loggerhead hatchlings have an incredibly frenzy period of life that begins after the eggshells' pipping. This frenetic activity occurs in the nest chamber and help hatchlings during its climb to the beach surface. Emergence in another frenzy period, followed by minutes of frenzy crawl seaward. Finally inside coastal sea-waters, hatchlings remain with a frenzy activity, swimming underwater until the relative safely open-ocean...

Step by step, the loggerhead nesting process in the beaches of Praia Baixo and Achada Baleia (Santiago Island, Cape Verde), during the nesting season (July to September) of 2007.

An overview about sea turtles conservation in the biggest of the ten islands that form the capeverdian archipelago.

Theme song for the 27th Sea Turtle Symposium as recorded by J Nichos, President-elect.

Hear from biologists and veterinarians while they inspect patients at a sea turtle rehabilitation center and prepare them for release.

Matthew Godfrey takes a trip to tag a juvenile green sea turtle named Peanut with the help of Christian Guerreri and Catherine McClellan.

Living on Earth's Cynthia Graber reports from Mexico, where one sea turtle researcher has been trying to navigate the difficult waters of conservation and its clash with local cultures. See a map of Max the sea turtle's track at http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?tag_id=21217. Originaly aired August 10, 2001.

Satellite tag attachment on an adult female loggerhead sea turtle at Bald Head Island, North Carolina. Video provided by the Newport Aquarium and WCPO 9, Cincinnati, Ohio. Orginally recording in 2003.

Marine Turtle Research Group staff visited St. Mary's School, Virgin Gorda to give a presentation on "Marine Turtles in the BVI". The whole school composed and performed a song for the occassion. For more information visit http://www.seaturtle.org/mtrg/projects/anegada/outputs.shtml.

A sea turtle presentation by Lucy Hawkes of the Marine Turtle Research Group. Webcast on Darwin Centre Live by the London Natural History Museum. Originally recorded for World Turtle Day, 22 May 2005.

Satellite tagging and release of an adult female loggerhead sea turtle from Bald Head Island, North Carolina. Follow her movements at: http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/?tag_id=57668