Sea turtle observations

Together with Danish Zoological Society, Turtle Watch Egypt 2.0 we are very interested in learning more about the sea turtles. We thus welcome any observations you might have.

Green Turtle catalogue. - showing individual turtles in observed in the Marsa Alam region of the Red Sea

TurtleWatch Egypt – Green Turtle catalogue. – showing individual turtles in observed in the Marsa Alam region of the Red Sea

 

We try to identify each individual based on photos and through this get an idea about how much the turtles move about in the Red Sea.

Download the TurtleWatch Egypt – Catalogue of Green Turtles of the Red Sea (pdf-file 60 MB, version Jan/2018)

Since then, we have collected huge amount of data on the turtles of Egypt! Please contribute with your photos of turtles at the Turtle Watch website: https://turtlewatchegypt.net/

You can read more about how to take the photos and what information we are looking for in this pdf:

Learn how to best take photos that are useful to provide new information about Green Turtles in the Red Sea

Learn how to best take photos that are useful to provide new information about Green Turtles in the Red Sea

Download the Green Turtle observation guideline

Go to the Turtle Watch website to learn a lot more https://turtlewatchegypt.net/

Micol Montagna is a driving force in this work. Get directly in touch with her through the website!

Unsure of how a Green Turtle is different from other species? – Learn more in How-to identify sea turtles of the Red Sea