IT'S TARTADAY!

The project like every year celebrates the sea turtle with the Tartaday, 17 August

The main initiatives of the Tartaday:

In Manfredonia the Tartaday will be celebrated with a public meeting organized by the CRTM of Manfredonia managed by Legambiente, with the local fishermen community (10.00am Centro Velico Gargano, Cala dello Spuntone - West Pier) on "Sustainable fishing and protection of sea turtles" .

In Riccione, Fondazione Cetacea, invites young and old to a series of initiatives starting from 17 August with appointment (10.30) at the recovery center of Riccione to attend the meal of the turtles hosted, to continue then the day afterwards with lots of information and awareness events, games with prizes and release of the Ernesto tortoise (at 10.00 am at the Kalima Beach Club in Viserba). Other releases of sea turtles will take place on 20 and 27 August from the Beach of the Two Sisters (AN), the 22 at sea with departure from the beach of Baia Vallugola (PU) and the 24 from the Bagno 33 Cattolica (RN).

In Agrigento for the Tartaday, the Libero Consortium of Agrigento has organized, on the beach of Punta Grande (Realmonte), a day of information on the problems of marine biodiversity that will end with the release of a specimen of sea turtle cured in the Recovery Center of Lampedusa. The event is scheduled for 11.30 am on the beach of Punta Grande and will be preceded by entertainment activities for children and teenagers.

Also tomorrow, 17 August, the "Aegadian Islands" Protected Marine Area and the First Aid Center for Sea Turtles will celebrate the Tartaday with various activities including an environmental education meeting (at 09.00, at the Marsala Sailing Club) , the liberation of Isaac, a sea turtle hospitalized in the CPSTM of the ISP of the Aegadian Islands, accidental victim of professional fishing but saved by the fisherman who had found her harnessed in her nets and (at 19.00) fun-educational appointment to discover the turtles marine for children.

At Asinara, the Cala Reale Marine Animal Recovery Center will be open to the public from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm for fun-educational and informative activities dedicated in particular to the collaboration with professional fishermen and the experimentation of new fishing

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