Lamu Marine Conservation Trust appreciates any form of adoption scheme from all of you. Turtle Nest sponsorship.
Our sincere appreciation and acknowledgement goes to all our friends in conservation. We send our acknowledgement toTusk Trust our main sponsor in England, to whom without their financial assistant we wouldn’t have achieved for what we have. Furthermore, many thanks go to the pioneers of the project (Carol Korschen and her husband Lars) and the subordinate staff for their dedication. We thank all nest adopters and turtle adopters. Tag sponsors Mr. Salim A green Turtle caught by a fisherman by a fishing line The Education Project
Ama primary school Bees and conservation. Yet to be accomplished………. Dhow Project Solar panels WE ARE HAPPY TO RECEIVE DONATIONS IN FORM OF MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
Kipungani Environmental Kindness Club We really thank Tusk Trust www.tusk.org for their efforts in publishing the Also special thanks go to the African Env Film Foundation for their env cassettes. The progrmme is running smoothly and efficiently, we are intending to extend this programme to
….YOU COME TO OUR NESTING SITES, WELCOME TO LAMU..KARIBU Every three years turtles swim hundreds of miles The male and female turtle mate in the sea. Then the female turtle
During the next ten to thirty days the female turtle returns to the When she is sure her eggs are safe, the female turtle returns to the sea.
After they hatch, the babies dig themselves out of the hole at night
In a few years they will come back to the same
Wel come to Lamu Marine Conservation Trust.
This is my DAD salim. He was fishing in side the Mangroove In the first place he thought of a big Shark, but after realizing WAS THAT TURTLE SLAUGHTRED!!!? Unfortunately, we didn’t get any sponsor as we are on off By Atwaa Salim( Manager LamCoT) Thank you Paula and the entire team at the Wildlife Direct.
When Atwaa first came to see us about setting up a blog about marine turtles in the Lamu archipelago I was captivated by his explanations about the project, his personal story, and the life cycle of the turtle. A local of the tiny island of Lamu just off the north coast of Kenya, his work has enormous impact on the local ancient communities and their views of turtles. So when he came back to the office for training I recorded his stories to produce this podcast so that you can enjoy hearing about his groups work in his own words. Enjoy! Paula
Turtle facts 1. Sea turtles are ancient reptiles and have been on Earth for over 130 million years. 2. The sex of a turtle is determined by the sand’s temperature… a cool nest is dominantly male, a hot nest is dominantly female 3. The ‘tears’ a female turtle has in her eyes when she comes to shore help her to get rid of the salt she absorbed in the ocean.
Who We Are…
Ex poachers now patrol Shella Beach and Takwa Beach, Manda to prevent the illegal poaching of eggs and mark out new nest sites and monitor them until hatching. Using a grant from Tusk, Donations from Nest and Tag, the local fishermen are paid incentives (depending on the size of the turtle) to bring in turtles caught in their nets accidentally to be measured, treated for any health problems, tagged and released.
LamCoT works under the umbrella organisation Kenya Sea Turtle Conservation Committee, KESCOM, collaborating with all turtle conservation groups up and down the Kenya Coast. Data collected on nesting, releasing, mortality and further activities concerning sustainability of biodiversity and ecosystem is sent to (KESCOM) and Tusk Trust together with the annual reports. The turtle project has inspired leaders in the community to take it upon themselves to create awareness through the wider community and to establish a greater understanding and more sustainable use of the islands’ resources .
A community meeting with local fishermen on illegal fishing issues. Atwaa Salim a Graduate from the University of Nairobi, who was coordinating the project via internate once at collage is now back to his community giving them a helping hand and in a full control. Since then, the project was gaining momentum and by 2001 the project was at the threshold of prosperity. Evidence to that; clubs have been formed at different schools e.g. Shella, Ama, Matondoni and Kipungani.
Local school children on an exciting turtle education excursion. The project started tree nurseries inconjuction with the school club. It has successfully managed to plant almost 50 seedlings of different species of trees at the airstrip. The project is disseminating all the conservational information to the school children through videos. LaMCoT’s mobile education unit has been recently established, a projector donated by Tusk Trust. With a screen, projector, generator and video library compiled from many sources such as Wildlife Clubs of Kenya, our educational videos are shown all over Lamu, the mainland and other more inaccessible islands. We give a weekly, interactive class covering relevant local issues: Marine ecosystems, Agroforestry, recycling and AIDS awareness. And have field trips in the area for beach clean ups, nature walks.
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