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Participation to the 2017 SIG Conference, thanks to ATN

13/11/2017 by helene.duran

Thanks to the support of the company Air Tahiti Nui (ATN), Te mana o te moana participated in the 2017 SIG Conference, the ESRI francophone conference on geographic information systems, 11 and 12 October 2017. This conference gathered more than 3 people from a wide range of horizons. We have been able to highlight our actions in […]

Hinerava supports our actions through donations

11/11/2017 by helene.duran

Hinerava is a Polynesian jeweler. It has launched the “Tetiaroa Jewelry Collection” to support us donating a portion of its sales on this jewelry collection. Funds go directly for the for the monitoring of sea turtles nesting sites on the Tetiaroa atoll, in partnership with Tetiaroa Society, the Brando Hotel and the French Polynesia Environment Directorate. For […]

Boris Tezak presented some parts of his thesis on sea turtles sex determination

09/11/2017 by helene.duran

Boris Tezak, Florida Antlantic Unisersity PhD student, presented a summary of his thesis on the “Sea Turtle Sex Ratios in a Changing Climate”. He is the Three Minute Thesis Championship Winner and People’s Choice Winner. The assessment: it is possible to identify the sex of a turtle by taking a blood drop sample. (A hormone would be present in male specimens […]

Release of 2 of our residents: Muto’i and Milla!

07/11/2017 by helene.duran

On October 12, we released two green turtles. Muto’i (“police officer” in Tahitian) is a green turtle that was seized last August by the gendarmes of Moorea in an individual where she waited returned on the back before being cooked. She was at the side of another turtle, of which only the plastron (underside of […]

Students training regarding sea turtles status in Polynesian culture

27/10/2017 by helene.duran

Last week we went to train 12 students of the University of French Polynesia (UPF) in Master 2 Sciences of the Universe, Environment, Ecology, specialty ” Insular Oceanian Environment” (M2EIO). As part of the teaching unit “conservation biology & invasions in the islands”, the training meant the emblematic marine species of French Polynesia, but the focus […]