Tourexpi
Sea turtles cover
extraordinary distances as they journey between their nesting and feeding
grounds and migrate to warmer waters for the winter. Together with Turkish NGO
Dekamer, the TUI Care Foundation is tracking the journey of two sea turtles
across the Mediterranean Sea with a GPS transmitter in order to receive vital
information about their feeding sites and migration routes, which helps to
safeguard their habitats.
Both turtles were
rescued from injury and rehabilitated by TUI Care Foundation’s partner Dekamer
in Turkey. Tuba is a Loggerhead sea turtle and was released back into the sea
in 2019 and Talay, a Green sea turtle, in 2021.
As part of the TUI
Turtle Aid programme the turtles are tracked via GPS satellite transmitter as
they journey between their nesting and feeding grounds and migrate to warmer
waters for the winter. So far, Tuba has swum an incredible distance of 18,000
km and is now relaxing in the South Adriatic, having visited Greece, Malta,
Italy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Albania, Montenegro and Croatia over the last three
years! Talay has swum considerably less – over 500 km over the last 18 months
and is spending the winter holiday season in the southern Aegean.
The progress of the
turtles as they meander through the Mediterranean Sea on their maritime journey
can be seen on the website of TUI Care Foundation here.
The sea turtle
tracking is part of TUI Care Foundation’s TUI Turtle Aid programme, which
protects endangered and vulnerable sea turtles, especially around nesting
beaches. By working with local NGOs and beachfront tourism businesses, it
also creates turtle friendly beaches and engages tourists by teaching them
about turtles and how to protect them. Since its establishment the TUI Turtle
Aid programme has contributed to the protection of over 2 million sea turtles.
Image Credit: © TUI
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