The most important nesting beach for caretta caretta in the Mediterranean is a valuable “maternity ward” for the unique species and the WWF vigilant this year, as always, along with the National Marine Park of Zakynthos and the ΑΡΧΕΛΩÎΑ.
2016 is becoming a record year, after the turtles in the Sequences and in the whole area of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos (ΕΘΠΖ) is numerically a lot more in relation to the data of the last five years. The nests touching the number of 482 in the Sequences so far, while for the ΕΘΠΖ overall, the corresponding number of touches 1.021,in accordance with the records of the ΑΡΧΕΛΩÎΑ. From the side, for yet another year, the WWF, and with the support of WWF Sweden,performs a program storage area of the Σεκανίων. Already from the 27th of June, two πυÏοφÏλακες protect the Sequences from both the human presence is prohibited in the area and from possible fires that can endanger the beach itself.
Harikleia Μινώτου, programme manager of the WWF in Zakynthos, takes us through her personal experience and a unique underwater video of female loggerhead, the importance of the protection of Σεκανίων.
Charikleia Μινώτου/WWF
Why is it important the protection of Σεκανίων and what they offer the πυÏοφÏλακες of the WWF
The human presence is prohibited in the core of the National Marine Park of Zakynthos, the beach of Σεκανίων, as this may jeopardise the conditions of nesting of the loggerhead. At the same time, a possible fire in the area around sekania can destroy the surface vegetation and subsequent erosion to take you to the beach dirt and mud and to cover the sand, where they make their nests of the turtles.
WWF carries out this period of the campaign to support the conservation of Caretta Caretta and Σεκανίων.
See in the video the first steps of a young hawksbill turtle
The loggerhead, is threatened by a possible change of the european legislation.
“The turtles and the nesting beaches are protected by the european habitats directive (92/43/EEC). Today, however, the european legislation for nature is in danger from the possibility of revising and weakening, through the evaluation process that has been initiated by the European Commission. And this despite the fact that the data has the same at the Commission’s disposal reveal that the legislation is suitable for the preservation of the european natural heritage”.
WWF calls on citizens to send a strong message and to create songs from sounds of nature: http://www.wwf.gr/campaigns/natureup
They have already created more than 60,000 songs in all of Europe.
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Record year for loggerhead sea turtle in Zakynthos! [video]
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