Saving Turtles in Lamu - A podcast
Category: Community, Tagging, Turtle Facts | Date: May 22 2008 | By: admin
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
Tags: conservation, Kenya, Lamu, Lamu Marine conservation, marine turtles, Peponi Hotel, poaching
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It is all about interest ! I am Atwaa Salim back home, having finished my bachelors degree from the university of Nairobi. I am now the co-ordinator of Lamu Marine Conservation Trust. Having volunteered for two years, I found the conservation of the natural resourse inclusive of turtles as very important. We are a group of ten people. We have got 4 guards a captain and a crew, with 3 office bearers. We are all from local communities around Lamu.
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4 Responses to “Saving Turtles in Lamu - A podcast”
filmingwild, on 22 May 2008
Hello Atwaa -
This is Tanya from the African Environmental Film Foundation. Unfortunately I cannot listen to the Podcast at the moment, but I will do when I get to a better internet connection.
I just wanted to let you know we were delighted to be able to send you our films for use as part of the educational program which you run in the schools in your area, to teach the children about conservation issues.
We are looking forward to hopefully including your project in one of our future films, as what you are doing is setting such a good example which can be followed by many other people along the coastline. By showing what you are doing on film, you can teach many other people who might not have the opportunity to visit your project themselves.
Good luck with everything,
Tanya
Sherri S., on 22 May 2008
Wow! That was absolutely fascinating! Thank you for sharing with us!
Dana-Phoenix Arizona, on 22 May 2008
I’m reading this at work (shame on me) and we with our firewall can’t view the podcast. Marine conservation is so important and I look forward to listening to Atwaa’s talk.
sheryl, washington dc, on 25 May 2008
I was on vacation when this was posted so I just got to listen to it. I agree, absolutely fascinating. I love the last thing you said, too.
s.
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