Tourexpi
Over 150 000 turtles released in Cape Verde during the 2024 nesting season
Both
of these organisations receive support from RIU
Hotels & Resorts, the hotel chain that operates six establishments in
the destination and is involved in biodiversity protection and conservation
initiatives as part of its Proudly Committed sustainability
strategy. The births took place in the hatcheries set up by these organisations
on the islands of Sal and Boa Vista, which help make Cape Verde
home to one of the world’s most important nesting populations of this species.
This
season, the island of Boa Vista hosted 60% of Cape Verde’s
turtle population, with 22,427 nests in the Tartarugas Natural
Reserve alone. Six hundred of these nests were
protected in hatcheries with a hatch rate of 77.9%, which led to 34,592
hatchlings being released into the sea. What’s more, 7,576 turtles were
monitored and 169 were rescued. BIOS Cape Verde also continued experiments
on nests to mitigate the effects of global warming and obtained promising
results in terms of hatchling sex ratios.
Projeto
Biodiversidade recorded 36,587 nests on the island of Sal. A total
of 2,225 were protected in hatcheries, one of which is located in
front of RIU’s hotels. The hatch rate reached 82.3% and 115,962
hatchlings were released into the sea. A 27 km stretch of coastline was
patrolled and 1,645 turtles were monitored. The hatcheries were
shaded to help reduce the incubation temperature by 2°C with the
aim of increasing the proportion of male turtles, a key measure to counteract
the effects of climate change.
There
has also been a significant reduction in poaching over the last few years,
falling from 440 cases in 2021 to just 110 in 2024 on the island of
Sal. The nurseries are monitored by volunteers from BIOS Cape Verde and Projeto
Biodiversidade. RIU supports these organisations by paying for food at the
beach surveillance team’s camps.
This
initiative helps strengthen measures to protect the loggerhead sea turtle
(Caretta caretta), which is classified as vulnerable in the IUCN (International
Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List of Threatened Species. RIU is
involved in programmes to protect a variety of animal species and their
habitats in Mexico, Jamaica, Mauritius and Aruba, where it supports
projects that work to preserve jaguars, green macaws, whale sharks and
cottontail rabbits, among other species.
Image
Credit: © AA
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