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Turtle Concevation Nusa Penida ( Golden Egg of Bali ) - FNPF Sea Turtle Saver monitoring program – at Atuh Beach, on the south-east coast of Nusa Penida – assists the island’s villagers to protect Critically-endangered Hawksbill and endangered Green turtles known to return annually from migration zones to nest at this beach.

Protected now by law, administered under the recent declaration of a Marine Protected Area (June 2014) covering Nusa Penida islands group – the nesting sites at Atuh Beach are checked regularly for any signs of these endangered marine turtle species by staff and volunteers at the FNPF Sea Turtle Monitoring Station.

Saving sea turtles | Sea Turtle Saver monitoring program on Nusa Penida

Funded by Seacology – a US-based non-profit supporting Small-islands Threatened Ecosystems – the FNPF Sea Turtle Saver Monitoring Station was opened in 2013. Patrols are conducted regularly during full-moon nesting cycles – particularly in the months of June and July anticipated to be high season for turtle nesting. To date, there is little recent evidence of sea turtles sightings or nests.

On Nusa Penida, the coastline is fringed by seaweed farms that create access barriers to beaches and make it difficult for marine turtles to navigate to their annual nesting sites. Sea turtles will usually return faithfully to the same nesting site each season after swimming for hundreds or even thousands of kilometres to reach the nesting beach.

Decreasing numbers of sea turtles and turtle sightings may be the result of fishing activity along migratory sea routes. The FNPF Sea Turtle Monitoring Station was sited at Atuh Beach in anticipation of observation and protection for any turtles returning to nest.

While there is strong anecdotal evidence of turtles using this beach as a nesting site in the past, reliable scientific data about numbers of turtles and turtle species is still missing. Monitoring will provide information of turtle species returning to nest on the beach, while protecting natural nests against predators such as monitor lizards, birds, crabs. This will result in increasing numbers of turtle hatchlings and their initial survival rate.

FNPF will provide a professional and specially adapted education program to train selected members of the community to run the turtle monitoring and beach protection. FNPF has considerable experience in turtle protection in Kalimantan, where it mobilized a local community to successfully protect a known turtle nesting beach from predators such as dogs and wild pigs. ( fnpf )

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