RELEASED ON 20TH OCT 2008
Category: Tagging | Date: Oct 22 2008 | By: lamumarine
A juvenile turtle accidentally caught by Mohamed(A fisherman), was safely released to the sea with Tag Number KE 2523. She was measuring 44 cm length and 43 cm width. The turtle was sponsored by Lucy Keeling.( Guest from Peponi Hotel).
Thank you Sophie,your sister and your friends for your excellent work
Category: Turtles | Date: Oct 05 2008 | By: lamumarine
Left Camille Basurta, next Sophie Broach.Right Joanna Valk ,next Julia Broach
Lamu Marine Conservation Trust would like to thank Sophie Broach for her generous support on the turtle project.
Sophie is a resident of UK of 16years. She raised $ 900 from a bake sale on behalf of Lamu Marine Conservation.
Sophie visited Lamu together with her family and they were very much impressed on our noble work.
Also, we would like to thank Sophie’s friends and her family for their support.
Always looking forward for your continuous support.
SPECIAL WEDDING
Category: Tagging | Date: Oct 01 2008 | By: lamumarine
Groom: Greg Kruse
Bride: Anna Chilczkuk
Recently, there was a special wedding at Peponi Hotel of Lamu. The couples’ names were Greg Kruse and Anna Chilczuk.
It was fantastic and a wonderful wedding ever done in Peponi!
The wedding group sponsored turtles as a wedding present to Lamu Marine Trust.
We would like to thank the whole group for their generous support.
Always looking forward to perpetual your support.
Thank You Thomas Betchler
Category: Turtles | Date: Sep 18 2008 | By: lamumarine
Mr.Thomas Betchler
Lamu Marine would like to thank Thomas Betchler for his perpetual support on the project. He has his own house on Manda Island. Thomas and his Son has been sponsoring so many turtles when they were accidentally caught by fishermen. One day Thomas decided to visit Pate Island of eastern archipelago. On the way he saw a turtle accidentally caught by fisherman. He gave them compensation instead of them slaughtering it. Lamu marine Team is very thankful to you Thomas and we will keep in touch. Thank you Thomas and your family.
Turtle Adoption Scheme
Category: Uncategorized | Date: Jul 23 2008 | By: lamumarine
Lamu Marine Conservation Trust appreciates any form of adoption scheme from all of you.
Turtle Nest sponsorship.
If anyone is interested to sponsor a turtle nest is $40.
This money goes to the patrol team at Takwa as their bonus
plus project communication cost.The sponsor will be updated on the success of his/her nest.
Later on a certificate will sent through his postal address plus picture of his nest.
Turtle Tag sponsorship.
Sometime a turtles have been caught accidentally by a fisherman.These are measured tagged and release,
Instead of the fishermen slaughtering them for meat we give them incentives.
To sponsor a turtle is $25.
Certificate and picture will be sent.
This sponsorship goes towards capacity building, community networking and fishermen rewards.
All tag sponsors are updated on their turtle when is going to be recaptured.
All update will be available on www.lamumarine.wildlife.org
This is our blog address in the wildlife direct.( Dr.Richard Leakey Associates)
Tusk Trust is the main sponsor of Lamu Marine Conservation Trust( www.tusk.org)
Lamu Marine Conservation Trust Newsletter March 08 to June 08
Category: Quaterly Newsletter | Date: Jul 15 2008 | By: lamumarine
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.
The progress of our project:
Nest and Tagging
From the beginning of this season we have recorded 20 nests from Manda Island and of which 14 have hatched.
Tag sponsors
Mr. Salim
A green Turtle caught by a fisherman by a fishing line
The Education Project
Our school education programme continues within four schools of Lamu archipelago (Shella, Ama, Matondoni and Kipungani primary schools). A well new developed syllabus, which covers all angles of environmental conservation, is being implemented by education officer- Famau Shukury. The children are very excited and motivated with the syllabus. As a matter of fact, Lamcot clubs are the only active clubs in the Lamu District.
Ama primary school
Bees and conservation.
The bee project is now based at Kibuyuni zone, where dozens of acres of mangroves have been exploited without a single tree being replaced. Lamcot has distributed 10 hives to the community of this area and the harvest will be shared between us. We are looking forward to distribute more hives to the crab fishermen. This is where Ama environmental kindness club will have its project on mangrove rehabilitation, and Matondoni club will have the bee project.
Blog address
The project has recently started a website with Wildlife Direct which is: http://lamumarine.wildlifedirect.org. Here, issues pertaining to marine life in Lamu and its adjacent waters are highlighted and debated all over the world.
Yet to be accomplished……….
Acquisition of our main turtle nesting zone
We are looking forward to owning at least 5 acres of the nesting sites, so that we can be able to carry out translocation of our nests. On this area, we will have eco-lodge bandas for volunteers to carry out research. The price is 16000 Sterling Pounds per acre.
Dhow Project
The purpose of the above project is to distribute conservational information to the Eastern part of Lamu archipelago. This is still pending as we are waiting for sponsorship in reaching the eastern region. Al Miftah Dhow is ready for transportation. Lars from Peponi Hotel has paid for it while we are looking for the 10,000 Gb to cover its total cost. The Dhow will not only be used for the Medical/Educational trips on the Northern part of the Archipelago, but also for taking the kids in our environment clubs out on trips such as: snorkeling, exchange visits, visiting projects on the ground and community mobilization as we are doing it now. This can be illustrated by the coming together of the community, when Pemba fishermen intruded to our fishing grounds with destructive fishing methods.
Solar panels
We are soon going to install a solar system at Manda for the patrol team, so that they can charge their phones. This is possible through the efforts of Sarah Watson during Lewa Safaricom marathon competition. We would like to thank Safaricom Company and Sarah for their participation.
How you can get involved in Lamcot and its activities….
Lamu Marine Conservation Trust has its own Bank account for members and well wishers to deposit funds.
to do this you
will need the following information:
Swift Code: KCBLKENXXX Beneficiary: Lamu Marine Conservation Trust
Account Number: 205 670 971
Alternatively funds could be sent to Tusk Trust in England
Tusk Trust Charity Aid Foundation
UK Reg 803118
” Tusk Turtles, Lamu”
And sent to:
Tust Trust, 5 Townbridge House
High Street, Gillingham`
Dorset, SP8 4AA
Tusk is our main sponsors. www.tusk.org
WE ARE HAPPY TO RECEIVE DONATIONS IN FORM OF MATERIALS AND EQUIPMENT
IF YOU HAVEN’T DONE SO ALREADY PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT BY BECOMING AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF LAMCOT
YOU CAN REGISTER YOUR MEMBERSHIP BY EMAILING US AT: dotatwa@yahoo.com or kasa@peponi-lamu.com
More on mobile education
Category: Education | Date: Jul 15 2008 | By: lamumarine
Kipungani Environmental Kindness Club
Kipungani School is among the four schools in Collaboration with Lamu Marine
Conservation Trust in the mobile education programme.
We really thank Tusk Trust www.tusk.org for their efforts in publishing the
Face books and educational Films with their logistical assistance which are all very usefull to us.
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
the Eastern archipelago once we get more funding.
YOU CAN WITNESS ALL OF THIS IF…..
Category: Turtle Facts, Turtles | Date: Jun 04 2008 | By: lamumarine
….YOU COME TO OUR NESTING SITES, WELCOME TO LAMU..KARIBU
Every three years turtles swim hundreds of miles
to lay their eggs on the same beaches where they were born.
The male and female turtle mate in the sea. Then the female turtle
swims to shore. With her flippers she digs a deep hole in the sand,
where she lays many round white eggs.In the hole, her eggs will be
safe and warm until they hatch.
During the next ten to thirty days the female turtle returns to the
beach several times to lay as many as 200 eggs. In their secret nest,
the eggs will stay dry and protected.
When she is sure her eggs are safe, the female turtle returns to the sea.
After seven weeks the eggs starts to hatch!
Each baby turtle has a special egg tooth on its beak. This tooth helps
the baby break through the shell.
After they hatch, the babies dig themselves out of the hole at night
and scamper to the sea.
In a few years they will come back to the same
beach and have babies of their own!
Wel come to Lamu Marine Conservation Trust.
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
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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