Te Mana O Te Moana https://www.temanaotemoana.org/en/ Fri, 11 Aug 2017 02:00:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://www.temanaotemoana.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/cropped-1-LOGO-PRINCIPAL-TMOTM-full-quadri-1-1-32x32.png Te Mana O Te Moana https://www.temanaotemoana.org/en/ 32 32 Sad reminder of « ghost nets » danger https://www.temanaotemoana.org/en/sad-reminder-of-ghost-nets-danger/ Thu, 10 Aug 2017 21:21:24 +0000 http://www.temanaotemoana.org/?p=12353 Monday, July 10th, Teiva, Timeo, Liam and Emrys, four children who were playing in the lagoon around Maharepa discovered a sea turtle whose flipper accidentally got stuck in a net on the water bottom. After a long disentangling, they managed to get her out of the water and called for help. Our team went on the spot in a hurry, but it was already too late.

This sad outcome allows us to remind you of a threat people are not talking about enough but whose impact is considerable for the marine fauna : “ghost nets”.

These nets are lost fishing nets left adrift and which, at worst, cling to reefs and thus become dangerous traps for all the inhabitants of coral ecosystems. When animals like sea turtles or marine mammals get trapped, they get drown, since these animals have lungs just like us and are therefore forced to regularly surface to breathe.

If you see ghost nets during underwater exploration or on the surface, bring them back to the ground to get rid of them in order to avoid the unnecessary and cruel capture of marine animals, such as this young turtle named Tetiliem by the children… when you can’t do it yourself, please feel free to tell us where you have found a ghost net so that we can go there and pick it up !

Bravo and thanks a lot to Teiva Laux, Timeo, Liam and Emrys Soulier for their efforts and reactivity over the situation.

]]> Ariti joins the ocean in Tahiti https://www.temanaotemoana.org/en/ariti-joins-the-ocean-in-tahiti/ Sun, 26 May 2013 00:04:28 +0000 http://www.temanaotemoana.org/?p=8189 The first Loggerhead turtle welcome at the Clinic and named “Ariti” in tahitien, has been released on Friday 24 th of May in partnership with the French Polynesia Ministry of the Environment. This turtle was find by a fisherman one month ago on the Tahiti Peninsula. In very good health for now, she has just been released thanks to the Department of Environment of French Polynesia (DIREN) after being equipped with two satellite tags that will track its movements for a few months.
The pause transmitters and monitoring is made possible the support from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency) and the Country. The turtle wad relased with schools children of Tehaupo, Tahiti and the Municipality of Tehaupo.

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]]> Jean-Michel Cousteau released a rehabilitated green sea turtle with te mana o te moana, Moorea https://www.temanaotemoana.org/en/7850/ Tue, 29 Jan 2013 03:10:19 +0000 http://www.temanaotemoana.org/?p=7850 Jean-Michel COUSTEAU, is the Ambassador of  te mana o te moana since 2008 and he just participated to the release of a young rehabilitated green sea turtle he called “here” love in Tahitian… He also supports the two Observatories started by the foundation on Polynesian sea turtles and marine mammals…

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