Monitoring and protection of sea turtles
The project
RINP'BA is an association of 6 students who have joined forces with the Franco-Indonesian association RIMBA for this project. The association’s mission is to protect Indonesia’s biodiversity while encouraging local populations to become involved in its projects, since 2012 in Sungai Pinang. Their actions are part of a global project to preserve forest and marine ecosystems via a socio-environmental approach based on several routes of action combining preservation of the environment and assistance with local communities’ development.
The creation of a nursery
The project ensures the monitoring and protection of sea turtles in the Muaro Duo nature reserve in Indonesia, which harbors Green and Hawksbill turtles, two endangered species. Two different types of turtles are thus in danger of becoming extinct, and identifying and monitoring these turtles’ nests is pivotal to their survival. To do this, patrols are set up to locate nesting sites and protect them from natural predators and from poachers. The creation of a nursery for these animals is another action they undertake to better protect them.
Long-term protection
The project increases the survival rate of sea turtle eggs and sea turtle populations over the longer term. The objective is also to significantly reduce poaching’s impact on sea turtles by decreasing the number of nests illegally harvested.
90%
survival rate for sea turtle eggs
5ha
the maritime surface currently protected