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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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

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