Turtle Farm Kosgoda Sri Lanka
PL Tours and Travels: Eggs are collected or bought from local villagers and buried in the sand hatchery. If there is a lot o sunshine they hatch after 48 days. If it is raining it can take up to 60 days before the turtles emerge from the eggs. They are then placed in the tanks and for first 3 days remain without food to cleanse them of material ingested form the eggshell. They are then given small pieces of fish for a further 7 days. Learning to dive down into the tank to take the food. When they can do this. They can be safely released into the sea where they can fish for themselves on the coral reefs.
Sea Turtle Conservation - turtle farm in Kosgoda, Sri Lanka
Kosgoda Sea Turtle Conservation Project in Sri Lanka.
Dudley Perera's project has been underway since 1988. The main aim of the project is to monitor local sea turtle activity and conserve the local nesting sites. We aim to make the public more aware of how endangered these beautiful creatures are and just how important it is to help protect them before it is too late.
One of the most important activities of the project is its hatchery. Within the sanctuary of the project, collected and rescued eggs can hatch safely away from predators before being released into the sea. In addition, a certain number from each hatching are kept back for a short period for 'headstarting' before release.
The hatchery program is designed to maximise the number of hatchlings reaching the sea and surviving through the critical stages of their early life.
Only a few hatchlings from each batch will ever make it to adulthood. Therefore every nest-ground, every egg, every hatchling and every turtle is crucial to the survival of the species. Unfortunately, sea turtles face many dangers.
The project's work relies on fundraising and grants. Every year, the project helps clear and maintain the local beach, protecting vital nesting-grounds (particularly important after the devastation of the Tsunami) and releases thousands of hatchlings. When you consider how long the project has been going, you can begin to understand the impact the project has!
The project is also resilient having survived the devastation of The Boxing Day tsunami of 26 December 2004.
Releasing turtles into the sea at hatchery in Kosgoda Sri Lanka
We went to the turtle harchery in Kosgoda Sri Lanka where we released recently born turtles into the sea.
Explore Sri Lanka - Turtles Project in Kosgoda
On the way to Hikkaduwa we found this Turtle conservation project, right next to the beach, where some volunteers take care of the sea turtles and help them to return to the sea. Right now, six of the seven turtle species are considered threatened due to human actions, and five of this species go every year to lay their eggs in the beautiful beaches of Sri Lanka. Because of this, Sri Lanka is considered a very good place for turtle watching, especially in the south, in a place called Rekawa and in the northwest, in a place called Kalpitiya.
Sea Turtels Concervation | Kosgoda | Srilanka | VLOG#04
The waters around Sri Lanka are teeming with sea life.
Though the threats to sea life exist here too,
we take extensive measures to reduce the threats.
Five out of the seven types of sea turtles call nest on our beaches.
All of them are on the endangered list.
Turtles are reptiles of the order Chelonii.
Therefore they are also called chelonians by researchers and conservationists.
Chelonians are charaterized by the special bony shell or carapace,
which is developed from their ribs and acts as a shield.
They are an old group with the very first proto-turtles having evolved
over 220 milliom years ago in the Triassic Era.
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Owner of Kosgoda Turtle Conservation Centre arrested
A team from the police Special Investigations Unit of Matara police arrested owner of the Kosgoda Turtle Conservation Center Chandrasiri Aabru and his assistant this afternoon.
Baby turtle release in a Walk With Jith tour in Kosgoda, Sri Lanka
Sue and Danny Hadas from Israel went on a Bird watching and culture tour in Sri Lanka. The tour was done by Walk With Jith and Prasanjith Caldera (Jith) was the tour leader. In this tour Sue and a local family released turtles in the Kosgoda beach in Sri Lanka. Danny a professional photographer captured the beautiy and exitemnt around 6 pm evenig when the sunset was creating many differnt colors ranges while the baby turtles started their life-jorney.
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Sri Lanka- Kosgoda Sea Turtle Conservation Project part3
Sri Lanka,ශ්රී ලංකා,Ceylon,Baby Sea turtles at Kosgoda Beach (01)
A privatly sponsored turtle hatching place Kosgoda Turtle Conservation Project located beside the town of Kosgoda, shows visitors the fresh born seaturtles a few hours before their release back into nature.Sea turtles (superfamily Chelonioidea) are marine reptiles that inhabit all of the world's oceans except the Arctic.The superfamily Chelonioidea has a world-wide distribution; sea turtles can be found in all oceans except for the polar regions.Some species travel between oceans. The flatback sea turtle is found solely on the northern coast of Australia.Sea turtles are almost always submerged in water, and, therefore, have developed an anaerobic system of respiration. Although all sea turtles breathe air, under dire circumstances they may divert to anaerobic respiration for long periods of time. When surfacing to breathe, a sea turtle can quickly refill its lungs with a single explosive exhalation and rapid inhalation. Their large lungs have adapted to permit rapid exchange of oxygen and to avoid trapping gases during deep dives. However, sea turtles must emerge while breeding, given the extra level of activity.According to SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment, a lifespan of 80 years is feasible for sea turtles.It takes decades for sea turtles to reach sexual maturity. After mating at sea, adult female sea turtles return to land to nest at night. Different species of sea turtles exhibit various levels of philopatry. In the extreme case, females return to the beach where they hatched. This can take place every two to four years in maturity. They make from one to eight nests per season.The mature nesting female hauls herself onto the beach, nearly always at night, and finds suitable sand on which to create a nest. Using her hind flippers, she digs a circular hole 40 to 50 centimetres (16 to 20 in) deep. After the hole is dug, the female then starts filling the nest with a clutch of soft-shelled eggs one by one until she has deposited around 50 to 200 eggs, depending on the species. Some species have been reported to lay 250 eggs, such as the hawksbill. After laying, she re-fills the nest with sand, re-sculpting and smoothing the surface until it is relatively undetectable visually. The whole process takes thirty to sixty minutes. She then returns to the ocean, leaving the eggs untended.The hatchling's gender depends on the sand temperature. Lighter sands maintain higher temperatures, which decreases incubation time and results in more female hatchlings.Incubation takes about two months. The eggs in one nest hatch together over a very short period of time. When ready, hatchlings tear their shells apart with their snout and dig through the sand. Again, this usually takes place at night, when predators such as seagulls cannot fly. Once they reach the surface, they instinctively head towards the sea. If, as happens on rare occasions, hatching takes place during daylight, only a very small proportion of each hatch (usually 0.01%) succeed, because local opportunist predators, such as the common seagull, gorge on the new sea turtles. Thus there is an obvious evolutionary drive to hatch at night, when survival rates on the beach are much higher.The hatchlings then proceed into the ocean, where a variety of marine predators await them. In 1987, Carr discovered that the young of Chelonia mydas and Caretta caretta spent a great deal of their pelagic lives in floating sargassum beds, where there are thick mats of unanchored seaweed. Within these beds, they found ample shelter and food. In the absence of sargassum beds, sea turtle young feed in the vicinity of upwelling fronts.In 2007, Reich determined that green sea turtle hatchlings spend the first three to five years of their lives in pelagic waters. In the open ocean, pre-juveniles of this particular species were found to feed on zooplankton and smaller nekton before they are recruited into inshore seagrass meadows as obligate herbivores.Instead of nesting individually like the other species, Ridley sea turtles come ashore en masse, known as an arribada (arrival). With the Kemp's ridley sea turtles this occurs during the day.Sea turtles, along with other turtles and tortoises, are part of the order Testudines.The seven living species of sea turtles are: flatback sea turtle, green sea turtle, hawksbill sea turtle, Kemp's ridley sea turtle, leatherback sea turtle, loggerhead sea turtle and olive ridley sea turtle.All species except the leatherback are in the family Cheloniidae. The leatherback belongs to the family Dermochelyidae and is its only member.(wikipedia)
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SriLanka-Kosgoda 2008
November 2008, I was invited to help with a post-tsunami project.
The project is an initiative of Orange Angel, a Dutch foundation.
The main man of this all is Jos Nijenhuis, former director and founder of FOX, a Dutch travel organization.
He was intensely involved in the aftermath of the 2004 Tsunami. Huge parts of the coastline were totally destroyed by the killer waves. The travel company wanted to 'do something' for the survivors.
This resulted (to make a long story short) in the rebuilding of a village and now, in 2008, the opening of a school for ceramics where villagers can work and learn.
I am happy and proud to have been involved in this. It is a super initiative and most of all, it is supported by local people such as the Visit Lanka- organization.
The humble part I so far played was instructing students from Moratuwa University, Colombo (who spoke English) and helping them in instructing the villagers how to work with the glazes, kilns and such.
This was a most rewarding experience.
The film below gives an impression of the school, the village and my 2 weeks of working with the students.
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