Do You Know What Happened Last Week!!?
Category: Community, Tagging, Turtles | Date: May 25 2008 | By: lamumarine
This is my DAD salim. He was fishing in side the Mangroove
channel in Lamu, Shela. Suddenly he fetl some thing heavy and
soo fast in taking his line out of his hand. Just to let you
know that he was in his small canoe.
In the first place he thought of a big Shark, but after realizing
the way he was skeeing in his canoe he reflected back on what he
use to experience in the past. Yes, he was right, it was a big
Green Turtle. Imagine he was unable to lift him 1.3 m
( as it was Male one) in to his canoe. The canoa bellow was
really small to accomadate him. Another two fishermen went to
hep him and eventually he was loaded in ones of the other
fishermens’ canoe.
WAS THAT TURTLE SLAUGHTRED!!!?
Like father like son and like son like father. My father, new
what is it all about accidentally caught turtle and what does
it mean by tagging them rather than killing. We tagged him and
release him. We gave him his incentive.
Unfortunately, we didn’t get any sponsor as we are on off
season till end of next month.
By Atwaa Salim( Manager LamCoT)
Thank you Paula and the entire team at the Wildlife Direct.
The podcast embedded on our blog on my introduction to LamCoT
was really nice. I am still on the RUN WAY.
Thanks
Atwaa
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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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100% of your donation, minus a small bank fee, will go to your intended purpose.
Donations made here are safe.
4 Responses to “Do You Know What Happened Last Week!!?”
Jeremy, on 25 May 2008
Why is the turtle lying up-ended as pictured, and did it survive the ordeal?
sheryl, washington dc, on 25 May 2008
I’m glad to learn the turtle was tagged and released. Good job. I guess I didn’t realize how big they become. Wow.
s.
Annie, on 15 Jul 2008
Ok…glad to know that big boy was released…in the picture it was hard to tell if he was still alive! Yea….let him be free..he is beautiful!
John Whitlam, on 11 Dec 2008
Hi
My wife, Lyn, and I are hoping to get to Lamu (Shela Village) next year. It’s wonderful to see the support for local fauna, and your successes are outstanding. Keep up the good work, the rest of the world applauds you…
Regards
John
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