The Elementary school from Sahorre ( Pyrénées, France) has worked the all year long on the migration of the French Polynesian Sea turtles with te mana o te moana, as part of the educational project “Bula honu, follow the sea turtles of the Pacific”. They also exchanged with local schools on a website specially dedicated to them by the French Polynesian Head of Education.
To complete their project, the students of Sahorre have created a special boardgame on the Sea turtles thematic called : the”TORSAHOPOLY” (the TOR for TORtue (turtle), the SAHO for SAHOrre and POLY for POLYnesia). It’s a quizz on Mahina Rahi, one of the 6 green turtles equipped by satellite transmitter on the island of Tetiaroa in January 2015. To highlight the project, 3 children went in May to the ARGONAUTICA meeting in Montpellier and have won the prize for the best presentation !!!!! One more time, huge congratulations to the school children of Sahorre and their teacher !!