2024 State of the World’s Sea Turtles Report Published

We’re delighted to announce the publication of the 2024 State of the World’s Sea Turtles Report (SWOT Report, vol. 19), which is now accessible on-line and in print. Browse all the articles or obtain all the report as a PDF right here.

SWOT Report, vol 19 was launched on the forty second Worldwide Sea Turtle Symposium in Pattaya, Thailand and on-line on March 25, 2024. Greater than 1,000 printed copies of the report had been distributed free-of-charge to the lots of of sea turtle researchers and conservationists who attended the Symposium from everywhere in the world.

Printed annually since 2006, The State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT) Report options success tales, improvements, and new findings in sea turtle conservation and analysis. The report is produced in collaboration with a world community of sea turtle researchers and conservationists, and given again to the group free-of-charge to be used in outreach and schooling efforts.

Oceanic Society employees current the primary copy of SWOT Report, vol. 19 to native dignitaries on the Worldwide Sea Turtle Symposium in Pattaya, Thailand.

Highlights from Quantity 19 Embrace:

A multi-country particular characteristic article on the ocean turtles of Southeast Asia, with details about sea turtle analysis and conservation in Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam.All new maps of sea turtle nesting and satellite tv for pc monitoring knowledge from all through Southeast Asia created in partnership with lots of of researchers all through the area.

Researchers from the Anambas Basis monitor a nesting inexperienced turtle in Indonesia’s Anambas Islands. SWOT Report, vol 19 contains sea turtle knowledge from all through Southeast Asia. © Anambas Basis

We’re grateful to all the authors, knowledge suppliers, and photographers who made this quantity of SWOT Report doable, in addition to the next donors for his or her assist of the SWOT Program in 2023–2024: Betlach Household Basis, Marisa I. Hormel Belief, Moore Household Basis, Seiko, Joseph and Diane Steinberg, Mark Swingle, and Upwell Espresso, in addition to the Affiliation of Zoos & Aquariums’ Sea Turtle SAFE (Saving Animals From Extinction) Program and its companions, together with: Journey Aquarium, Aquarium of the Pacific, Audubon Nature Institute, Florida Aquarium, Gladys Porter Zoo, Mystic Aquarium, Nationwide Aquarium, New England Aquarium, North Carolina Aquarium on Roanoke Island, OdySea Aquarium, Distant Ecologist Inc., SEA LIFE Arizona Aquarium, South Carolina Aquarium, Texas State Aquarium, The Aquarium at Moody Gardens, The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, Topeka Zoo & Conservation Middle, and Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Middle.

In regards to the State of the World’s Sea Turtles Program

Based in 2003, the SWOT program is led by Oceanic Society and a rising worldwide community of establishments and people. This highly effective group—the SWOT Group—works to compile and publish international sea turtle knowledge that assist conservation and administration efforts on the worldwide, nationwide, and native scales. Study extra about Oceanic Society’s international sea turtle conservation packages right here.