https://doi.org/10.82144/ed66a1f1 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/412a0be2-8f44-4975-a147-b0d7e8778971 https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1964 https://obis.org/dataset/a9e4f771-6674-42c7-a5bc-05a26b8aee32 Israel Center Isreal's Sea Turtle Monitoring Program Primary contact yaniv@npa.org.il OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Israel Center Isreal's Sea Turtle Monitoring Program Primary contact yaniv@npa.org.il owner Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool seaturtle.org mcoyne@seaturtle.org http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/ originator 2025-08-29 eng Original provider: Yaniv Levy Dataset credits: Data provider: Marine Turtle Research Group; Originating data center: Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT); Project sponsor or sponsor description: Yaniv Levy Abstract: Israel National Nature and Parks Authority (INNPA) conducts a management plan for sea turtles since the 1980s. During more than 30 years, rangers are surveying the Mediterranean coasts, tracking, protecting and relocating loggerhead and green turtles' nests into hatcheries in coastal nature reserves. The hatcheries are protected and during the hatching season, the hatchlings are released by the help of rangers and volunteers. <br>More than 100,000 hatchlings were released so far. <br>In 1999 INNPA established a sea turtle rescue center and every year dozens of wounded turtles are rehabilitated and more than 60% are released back to the wild. The turtles suffer from various injuries that result from fishing activity, pollution, plastic debris etc. One part of the rescue center’s work is raising a breeding stock of green sea turtles. Their offspring will be released to the sea from the hatcheries. <br>An additional activity of the INNPA is sampling stranded sea turtle carcasses in order to collect different data, such as genetic information, population size and distribution.<br><br>All of the above information is included in our website. Marine Biology Telemetry Tagged animal N/A Visit STAT's project page for additional information at http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=303 The access to this work requires permission. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1964 Oceans -50.489 87.911 47.066 21.817 2008-07-20 2012-07-02 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Caretta caretta Loggerhead sea turtle species Chelonia mydas Green sea turtle asNeeded Israel Center Isreal's Sea Turtle Monitoring Program Primary contact yaniv@npa.org.il NA NA NA Israel Center owner NA zd_1964 2025-08-29T17:41:51-04:00 dataset Center I. 2025. Israel Sea Turtle Tracking Project 2008: Loggerhead & Green Turtles. 1.0.0. Dataset published in OBIS-SEAMAP and originated from Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT; http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=303). https://doi.org/10.82144/ed66a1f1. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1964 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1964/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/1964/eml STAT Project Page UTF-8 Original web site http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=303 OBIS-SEAMAP zd_1964 zd_1964 Coyne, M. S., and B. J. Godley. 2005. Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT): an integrated system for archiving, analyzing and mapping animal tracking data. Marine Ecology Progress Series: Vol. 301: 1-7.