Conservation Areas for Turtle

SEA TURTLE CONSERVATION AREAS

 

The Maritime and Fisheries agency in Gunungkidul regency, Yogyakarta, plans to declare a number of beaches on the province’s southern coast as sea turtle conservation areas.

“Some of the beaches will be designated sea turtle landing locations and eco-tourism attractions. This is to protect the population of sea turtles in gunungkidul, as more and more beaches have opened to tourists in the past five years,” agent chief Agus Priyanto said recently.

The agency will cooperate with conservation consultants to survey potential beaches used by sea turtles to lay their eggs.

In the plan, a total of 25 beaches in the regency will be  surveyed, with around 6 to 10 being used for conservation activities.

The agency recorded at least five species of turtles in the area : The hawksbill sea turtle, The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle, The green sea turtle, The loggerhead sea turtle and The flatback sea turtle, which routinely lay they eggs on Gunungkidul’s beaches.

The International Union for The Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has listed the Kemp’s ridley and hawksbill sea turtles as “critically endangered”, The loggerhead and Green turtles as “endangered” and The flatback turtles as “data deficient”, meaning that its conservation status is unclear  due to a lack of data.

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