The territorial sea of São Tomé and Príncipe is house to 5 of the seven species of sea turtles on the earth.
Dozens of visitors have accumulated on the Vila Maria seaside at the island of São Tomé and Príncipe to observe as 400 child sea turtles are launched into the ocean.
The turtle hatchlings have spent two months incubating within the sand in nesting websites monitored through islanders operating to offer protection to the endangered species.
“It is the first time, with some enthusiasm surely, that I have observed nature in complete swing, them going to their herbal habitat after being born at the sand,” says Jeremias Rodrigues, a vacationer visiting the island.
At the west coast of Africa, São Tomé and Príncipe is the one breeding safe haven for the Sada turtle. The safety and preservation of those species within the archipelago is a continuing problem.
The discharge is overseen as a part of an initiative of the Tatô programme, a global NGO in keeping with the island of São Tomé and Príncipe which manages the conservation of marine and coastal ecosystems.
“The Sada turtle, we have now the closing reproductive species at the West African coast. Different nations have them, however there are just a few, however we have now a inhabitants that, if we give protection to them, can build up and repopulate this house,” says Antunes de Pina, head of the Tatô programme.
“At the major nesting seashores, we have now individuals who paintings at night time to offer protection to them, and on the similar time, they gather knowledge this is necessary for us to hold out research and we additionally take a large number of benefit of this to lift consciousness,” she explains.
The Tatô programme has been the primary motive force of sea turtle conservation and group empowerment in São Tomé.
Its paintings comes to tackling the complicated socio-economic demanding situations and the threats persisting at the island, demonstrating the significance of operating with an integrative method on a variety of fields akin to analysis, tracking and coverage of crucial nesting and foraging grounds, advocacy and legislation enforcement, capability development and financial diversification; schooling, verbal exchange and multi-stakeholder public consciousness.