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Regional Turtle Ranger Exchange Report
SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation
Available Online
2025
This turtle ranger exchange followed a 2-day workshop with government officials from across the Pacific to discuss turtle policies, enforcement, and sustainability issues. It is recognised that governments and communities must work together to ensure that turtles continue to play a part in Pacific ecosystems and cultures. This learning exchange provided an opportunity for turtle monitors and rangers across the Pacific to come together to share and learn from each other, build their knowledge and capacity and connect with other turtle monitors within their country as well as regionally with the view to help form strong alliances and cross-border data sharing as our migratory turtle species connect us. The BIEM is funded by the European Union with additional support from the Government of Sweden for the BIEM Initiative under the Pacific European Marine Partnership (PEUMP) programme. Participants from the 5 BIEM countries (Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Vanuatu), as well as Australia (online) were invited to participate. Papua New Guinea was also only able to participate via online in some sessions. Participants were nominated by governments and/or partners in each country. The exchange was aimed at turtle rangers working on the ground to protect nesting beaches and turtle populations. Exchange Objectives The overall objectives of the Forum included: 1. Provide opportunity for turtle monitors and rangers across the Pacific to share and learn from each other. 2. Extend latest research, techniques, best practice approaches and training opportunities for turtle monitoring, data collection and related activities with turtle monitors and rangers. 3. Provide a platform/place to share cross-border/transboundary learning and data and form stronger alliances to conserve marine turtles across their full life history.
Turtle research and monitoring database: a TREDS of summary Pacific turtle data recorded from 1970 to 2018
SPREP Publications, Biodiversity Conservation
Available Online
2024
The Turtle Research and monitoring Database System (TREDS) was developed in 1993, to allow members of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP) to store, collate, and organise their data for research, monitoring and reporting. This tool is intended to assist members in making informed decisions regarding turtle conservation in the region. The dataset extracted from TREDS is from 1970 to 2018 and has been manipulated for the chapters covered in this report. The difference in dates for the establishment of TREDS in 1993 and the beginning of the date of the dataset of 1970 is simply due to users submitting their existing turtle data from 1970 once the database was launched in 1993, since many users saw the importance of TREDS as a lepository for storing their historical turtle data that was probably stored in paper format or on computers that would be susceptible to corruption or crashes. The purpose of this report is to provide an overview of the data contained within TREDS since its development up until its upgrade to a web-based online database platform. The last TREDS Annual Report was published in 2009 with subsequent Country reports published until 2015.