In February we concluded our first EVER season of Turtle Conservation Internships! There is very little known about sea turtle populations in Papua New Guinea. Our aims for the 2017/18 turtle nesting season were to create a baseline dataset on the population of nesting green and hawksbill turtles at the Conflict Islands and subsequently to create a long-term yearly comparison of sea turtle populations at the Conflict Islands. During this study we worked together with WWF Aust

Preparations for this upcoming program are well underway! Two new turtle hatcheries have now been constructed on opposite sides of Panasesa

When I first applied for the position of Conservation Officer at the Conflict Islands, I was a little apprehensive. Spending 6 months by mys

It is an incredible experience, watching baby sea turtle some no bigger than your pinkie, acting upon some instinctive notion that as soon as they hatch, they must make it to the sea as fast as their little legs will carry them. Kind of hard to believe when they can ultimately grow up to 3 meters in length. Their mothers, long-gone by this point, will have buried their eggs deep into the sands in an attempt to protect her little ones from incoming tides and predators and huma