Hawksbill Nesting season 2011

Hello everyone! This is a new nesting season and so far we already have 14 nest incubating, its our first surveys and we’v got this amount ,in year past by at this time we would have 2 to 3 nest incubating. And it seems that the nesting will be sooner than the years before.

Looking back at 2010

Hello friends, now that we are so close to welcome the new year 2011, we look back and remember the moments we all shared together this 2010 learning about the sea turtles and trying to do something good to help them. There is still a lot to do so we will keep helping to conserve them in our region. Come and check our blog soon for more information about our turtles and our activities! We are very happy with all your support and this encourages us to keeptrying hard to protect our sea turtles.

The WCS Nicaragua Youth Group wishes you all a Happy New Year 2011!!!

Merry Christmas!!!

Hi there!

The WCS Nicaragua Youth Group wishes all of you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

We thank you for your comments and support and soon we will be back answering your messages and telling you about our new initiatives. 😉

Learning to measure sea turtles

Last  29 of October, we learnt two ways to measure sea turtles: the straight-line and over the curve measurements. The carapaces of sea turtles have a notch at the front, and another notch at the end of the carapace, between the last two marginal scutes. We learnt how to measure the minimum carapace length, the one that goes from notch to notch, and also the length from the notch at the front of the carapace to the tip at the end.

We also learnt to measure the carapace width and the head width. Measuring turtles is important because we can find out how long it takes for them to grow, or compare the size of the turtles from different places in the world.

Radio Reports

Every week, one or two of us go to the Caribbean Pearl Radio station, in Pearl Lagoon, with one member of the WCS team. Together, we give a report with the results from the previous week that the WCS team has brought from the Pearl Cays.  We  talk  about  how many nests they found, how many were lost, and how many shes came up to lay.

We also thank the fishermen for cooperating  with us, and encourage the people to help protect the turtle and not to buy jewelry that made out of hawksbill shells .