https://doi.org/10.82144/a47243a3 https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/367 https://www.gbif.org/dataset/42416c65-ea13-4270-855f-fc6346a7d965 https://obis.org/dataset/10be7b68-5ffc-408b-afe3-703128c99f98 Brendan Godley Marine Turtle Research Group Primary contact b.j.godley@exeter.ac.uk OBIS-SEAMAP Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab, Duke University

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seamap-contact@duke.edu https://seamap.env.duke.edu distributor Brendan Godley Marine Turtle Research Group Primary contact b.j.godley@exeter.ac.uk owner Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool seaturtle.org mcoyne@seaturtle.org http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/ originator 2025-07-31 eng Original provider: Marine Turtle Research Group / SEATURTLE.ORG Dataset credits: Data provider Marine Turtle Research Group Originating data center <a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/' target='_blank'>Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a> Project partner This satellite tracking project is a collaboration among the <a href=http://www.indp.cv>Cape Verde Instituto Nacional Desenvolvimento Das Pescas</a> (Sonia Merino, Vito Melo), the <a href=http://www.seaturtle.org/mtrg/>Marine Turtle Research Group</a> (Brendan Godley, Annette Broderick, Lucy Hawkes), <a href=http://www.seaturtle.org>SEATURTLE.ORG</a> (Michael Coyne, Matthew Godfrey) and the <a href=http://www.ulpgc.es/>Universidad Las Palmas</a>, Canary Islands (Luis Felipe Lopez Jurado, Nuria Varo, Pedro Lopez-Suarez, Daniel Cejudo). The ongoing turtle monitoring and <a href=http://www.tortugasmarinas.org>conservation project</a> is being supported by Hydrocarpo, an <a href=http://www.interreg-mac.org/es/index.jsp?flash=yes>Interreg IIIB project (UE)</a> ; a Canarian and Cape Verde Government <br>initiative implemented by the <a href=http://ipimar-iniap.ipimar.pt/>Cape Verde Instituto Nacional Desenvolvimento Las Pescas</a> and the <a href=http://www.iccm.rcanaria.es/>Instituto Canario de Ciencias Marinas</a> , Canary islands (Spain).<br>Noting the regional importance of this work, <a href=http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/where_we_work/africa/news/news.cfm?uNewsID=14811>WWF-WARPO</a> are working with project partners to help the project disseminate its findings to maximum effect. Project sponsor or sponsor description This project was funded by generous grants from the <a href=http://www.britishcheloniagroup.org.uk/>British Chelonia Group</a>, the <a href=http://www.mcsuk.org/marineturtles.htm>Marine Conservation Society</a>, the <a href=http://www.nerc.ac.uk/>Natural Environmental Research Council</a>, the <a href=?http://www.ptes.org/?>Peoples Trust for Endangered Species</a>, <a href=?http://www.seaturtle.org?>SEATURTLE.org</a> and <a href=?http://www.seaworld.org/?>SeaWorld Busch Gardens</a>. Abstract: The Cape Verde archipelago, 500km off the West Coast of Africa, hosts one of the worlds largest nesting colonies of the loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). Although marine turtles have been recorded at Cape Verde as early as 1479 (when the French explorer Eustache de la Fosse reported that sea turtles could be used by humans for medicinal and nutritional purposes), it was not until 1998 that Project Natura 2000 began comprehensive studies to assess the status, distribution and abundance of marine turtles in the Cape Verde archipelago. To date, 3,377 loggerhead turtles have been tagged on the beaches of Boavista, just one of the 15 islands and islets of the Republic of Cape Verde. Boavista is known to host the largest number of nesting turtles in the archipelago although the number of turtles is thought to have been declining since the start of surveys due to threats by human predation.<br>The nesting population of Cape Verde has been identified as a priority for conservation along the West Coast of Africa and more information needs to be collected on its natural history, including migratory pathways and foraging areas. This study will investigate these post nesting migratory pathways and foraging grounds and describe diving and depth utilisation patterns.<br>Subscribe <a href=http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?form=1&project_id=26>here</a> for email updates. Marine Biology Telemetry Tagged animal N/A <a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=26' target='_new'>Visit STAT's project page</a> for additional information. The access to this work requires permission. https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/367 Oceans -25.469 -12.781 19.079 7.873 2004-07-28 2006-03-27 Scientific names are based on the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). species Caretta caretta Loggerhead sea turtle asNeeded Brendan Godley Marine Turtle Research Group Primary contact b.j.godley@exeter.ac.uk NA NA NA Brendan Godley owner NA zd_367 2025-07-31T14:13:55-04:00 dataset Godley B. 2024. Cape Verde (Cabo Verde) 2004: Loggerhead 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=26). https://doi.org/10.82144/a47243a3. OBIS-SEAMAP Dataset Page UTF-8 Interactive map https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/367 FGDC Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/367/fgdc EML Metadata UTF-8 XML https://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/367/eml STAT Project Page UTF-8 Original web site http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/index.shtml?project_id=26 OBIS-SEAMAP zd_367 zd_367 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.