It's TARTADAY!

Sunday 6th of August TartaLife Projecy celebrates the TARTADAY

A full day for turtles! Rescue centers and project partners will open the door to tourists in a series of activities aimed at informing the turists about the conservation of the sea turtle and the activities carried out in the project to safe the sea turtle Caretta caretta.

ASINARA

On Sunday, August 6, at 5 pm, two turtles will be released from the Asinara Marine Turtle Resue Center. The release will take place in the waters of the Marine Protected Area of Asinara and will be carried out on the open sea in order to avoid possible entanglements in fishing nets located near the coast of Asinara. The event will take place from 5 pm at the pier of the Observatory of the Sea (near Cala Reale - Asinara Island) from where the turtles will leave, on a CRAMA boat, for the offshore release.

AMP Isole EGADI

Release of sea Turtle by the Marine Turtle First Aid Center. August 6 - Marettimo Scalo Nuovo 4.30 pm: training activities for children 18.00: Release of Vega, rescued by Marine Turtle First Aid Center of the Egadi Marine Marine Protected Area

Fondazione Cetacea

Saturday August 5th: release of a specimen in Pesaro: meeting at the Bagno Amarena at 10.00 am for awareness acrtivities; at 10.40 turtle release onboard the vessel of Coast Guard.

Sunday, August 6th: Turtle release in Cattolica (Bagno 33 h 10.00, 10.40 amturtle release onboard the vessel of Coast Guard)

Monday, August 7: release at Numana, at the beach of the Two Sisters, with boarding at 4 pm on the Conero Ferry Motorboats

Agrigento

August 6th, a turtle curated at the Eraclea Cattolica Recovery Center will be released in San Leone, Lido di Agrigento

Legambiente

August 3: Release of two specimens of Caretta caretta rescued at the Manfredonia Recovery Center

objective

reduction of sea turtle mortality in the professional fishing

project in brief

The conservation of Caretta caretta, a priority species included in App. II/IV of the Habitat Directive and protected in various international Conventions, has been representing a strategic issue for the whole Mediterranean basin, with professional fishing being the main threat for the survival of marine turtles: every year about 130000 turtles can be accidentally caught accidentally in the Mediterranean.

The project TartaLife, involving all 15 Italian regions overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, aims at reducing:
- bycatches caused by pelagic longline, bottom trawl and fixed nets by disseminating technical innovations of the fishing gears;
- post-capture mortality through trainings for fishermen and strengthening the marine turtles First Aid/Rescue Centres

TartaLife project

Life+ programme

The LIFE programme is the EU’s funding instrument for the environment. The general objective of LIFE is to contribute to the implementation, updating and development of EU environmental policy and legislation by co-financing pilot or demonstration projects with European added value.

LIFE began in 1992 and to date there have been four complete phases of the programme (LIFE I: 1992-1995, LIFE II: 1996-1999, LIFE III: 2000-2006 and LIFE+: 2007-2013). During this period, LIFE has co-financed some 3954 projects across the EU, contributing approximately €3.1 billion to the protection of the environment.

Life+ programme