{"id":2810,"date":"2025-12-15T10:50:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/?p=2810"},"modified":"2025-12-15T10:50:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T10:50:19","slug":"one-turtles-final-journey-rewrites-what-we-know-about-where-they-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/one-turtles-final-journey-rewrites-what-we-know-about-where-they-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"One turtle\u2019s final journey rewrites what we know about where they travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the-content\"><p style=\"text-align: justify\">A female hawksbill turtle tagged by researchers from the Save Our Seas Foundation D\u2019Arros Research Centre (SOSF-DRC) in St Joseph Atoll washed ashore on a beach near Kipini in Kenya. The recovery of this turtle, which was recognised by her flipper tags and probably killed by fishing trawlers out at sea before she washed ashore, has extended the known foraging range of adult hawksbills from Seychelles all the way eastward to the coast of Kenya.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2811\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 768px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-1-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation.jpg\" class=\"fresco\" data-fresco-caption=\"\" data-fresco-options=\"thumbnails:false\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2811 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-1-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-1-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-1-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-1-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Abigail Kidd | \u00a9 Ulinzi Africa Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018The longer we study these fascinating animals, the more we learn about them!\u2019 remarks Dr Jeanne Mortimer, or Madame Torti as she is affectionately known in Seychelles. Dr Mortimer has worked to conserve Seychelles\u2019 sea turtles since the 1980s and has been instrumental in establishing the long-term monitoring of their populations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">And it was Dr Mortimer who received a curious WhatsApp message on 18 August 2025: a dead turtle had washed up on the beach near Kipini, Kenya. The bad injuries visible in the photos suggested this turtle, a female, had been killed by fishing trawlers that had been operating in the area over a period of five days, during which three other turtles had similarly washed ashore, dead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">But Dr Mortimer, who is based in Seychelles, had received the message for a more extraordinary reason than merely to notify her of the loss: the flipper tags on this turtle were recognised as those applied in Seychelles by staff at the Save Our Seas Foundation D\u2019Arros Research Centre (SOSF-DRC) during the 2024\u201325 turtle-nesting season.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2814\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1024px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-5.jpg\" class=\"fresco\" data-fresco-caption=\"\" data-fresco-options=\"thumbnails:false\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2814\" src=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-5-1024x586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"586\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-5-1024x586.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-5-300x172.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-5-1536x879.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-5.jpg 1912w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image by Jeanne Mortimer<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This was only the second record of an adult female hawksbill turtle journeying outside Seychelles\u2019 waters, and further than the Mascarene Islands and Madagascar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018We know that at the end of the nesting season adult hawksbill females leave the vicinity of the beach and travel to distant feeding grounds, where they spend most of their adult lives,\u2019 says Dr Mortimer. \u2018But we didn\u2019t always know where they went. If the adult feeding ground is in the same area that humans are fishing (especially using nets or trawls), turtles wearing flipper tags may get captured. And if the fishermen report the capture of a tagged turtle, this provides valuable information about the location of the feeding grounds of the adult turtles.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018But\u2019, she continues, \u2018there were no records of our flipper-tagged adult female hawksbills from Seychelles being intercepted by anyone after they left the nesting beach.\u2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1024px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/3-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation.jpg\" class=\"fresco\" data-fresco-caption=\"\" data-fresco-options=\"thumbnails:false\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2815\" src=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/3-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-1024x724.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/3-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/3-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/3-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-1810x1280.jpg 1810w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/3-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-1536x1086.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/3-photo-by-abigail-kidd-ulinzi-africa-foundation-2048x1448.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Abigail Kidd | \u00a9 Ulinzi Africa Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018To better understand the migrations of Seychelles\u2019 adult hawksbill turtles we needed more advanced technology than flipper tags and our community monitoring projects: we needed satellite-tracking,\u2019 explains Dr Mortimer. \u2018And when we tracked females by satellite, we found that their feeding grounds were usually located in deep water (in the vicinity of Seychelles), in the open sea, far away from where fishermen could catch them. This solved much of the mystery and explained why we were not getting tag returns.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Satellites proved to be a useful addition to Seychelles\u2019 turtle monitoring and provided some of the missing pieces of the puzzle. And although satellite-tracking showed that, after nesting, most female hawksbills remain in deep waters in the vicinity of Seychelles, it turns out that isn\u2019t the whole story.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The issue with satellite-tracking is the cost: thousands of US dollars can be spent tracking a single female over the course of a year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Flipper tags, by contrast, remain a cost-effective way to keep tabs on turtles for decades at a time. The turtle-monitoring programme at D\u2019Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll in the Amirantes Islands of Seychelles began in 2004 and has been supported by the Save Our Seas Foundation since 2012.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018Seychelles is an incredibly important place for nesting hawksbill turtles,\u2019 says the SOSF Founder, His Excellency Abdulmohsen Abdulmalik Al-Sheikh. \u2018The beaches of D\u2019Arros Island and St Joseph Atoll are vital places for mother hawksbill turtles to lay their eggs, and this extraordinary finding reminds us how important long-term turtle-tagging programmes are.\u2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2813\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 1024px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-4-photo-by-jeanne-a-mortimer-save-our-seas-foundation.jpg\" class=\"fresco\" data-fresco-caption=\"\" data-fresco-options=\"thumbnails:false\" ><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2813\" src=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-4-photo-by-jeanne-a-mortimer-save-our-seas-foundation-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-4-photo-by-jeanne-a-mortimer-save-our-seas-foundation-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-4-photo-by-jeanne-a-mortimer-save-our-seas-foundation-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-4-photo-by-jeanne-a-mortimer-save-our-seas-foundation-1707x1280.jpg 1707w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-4-photo-by-jeanne-a-mortimer-save-our-seas-foundation-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/saveourseas.com\/sosf-darros-research-centre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/figure-4-photo-by-jeanne-a-mortimer-save-our-seas-foundation-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">St Joseph Atoll. Image by Jeanne Mortimer | \u00a9 Save Our Seas Foundation<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">This hawksbill turtle \u2013 tagged with flipper tags when she came ashore to nest at Banc Coco in St Joseph Atoll \u2013 has extended the known feeding range of adult hawksbills from Seychelles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">\u2018Since the year 1970, when our Seychelles hawksbill-tagging programme began, we have recorded only one other flipper-tagged Seychelles post-nesting adult female hawksbill along the East African coast \u2013 in Tanzania in 2010,\u2019 says Dr Mortimer. \u2018So this recent record is only the second of its kind in 55 years of flipper-tagging many hundreds of adult nesting hawksbills in Seychelles.\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A female hawksbill turtle from Seychelles, found washed ashore in Kenya, has changed what scientists know about where the adult females from this Critically Endangered species roam after 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