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Doha
As Qatar joined the world on Saturday to mark the World Turtle Day 2020, which is celebrated on May 23, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) said its Hawksbill Turtle Conservation project is achieving great success as 15,799 hatchlings have been released into sea from protected nesting sites in the Fuwairit Beach between 2016 and 2019.
The ministry, represented by the Department of Protection and Wildlife of the Environmental Affairs Sector, said it attached great importance to protecting endangered turtles by monitoring rare wild and marine species that are considered a national wealth for the state and for future generations.
After the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) listed the marine hawksbill turtle among the endangered species since 1982, Qatar started efforts to protect sea turtles early in the announcement of the project to protect hawksbill turtle in 2003.
The project aims to preserve the endangered hawksbill turtle in the northern coasts of Qatar, which includes Ras Laffan, Huwaila, Al-Jassassia, Al-Marwanah, Fuwair, Al-Ghariyah, Al-Mufeer as well as in the islands of Umm Tis, Rukn, Sheraa, Halul), and supervises a group of experts and specialists. In the Department of Protection and Wildlife of the Ministry of Municipal and Environment to carry out related studies in Fuwairit Beach in cooperation with a team from the Environmental Sciences Center at Qatar University, this includes transporting turtle nests to protect them from the impact of the high tide of the sea, monitoring the temperature of nests, and placing devices on some turtles with the aim of tracking the locations of Living in Qatar and neighboring countries, and taking DNA samples from turtles.
The works of the current season of the turtle protection project for the year 2020 are being conducted with the participation of a team of specialists and experts headed by Talib Khaled al Shahwani, director of the Department of Protection and Wildlife of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment.
Doha
As Qatar joined the world on Saturday to mark the World Turtle Day 2020, which is celebrated on May 23, the Ministry of Municipality and Environment (MME) said its Hawksbill Turtle Conservation project is achieving great success as 15,799 hatchlings have been released into sea from protected nesting sites in the Fuwairit Beach between 2016 and 2019.
The ministry, represented by the Department of Protection and Wildlife of the Environmental Affairs Sector, said it attached great importance to protecting endangered turtles by monitoring rare wild and marine species that are considered a national wealth for the state and for future generations.
After the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) listed the marine hawksbill turtle among the endangered species since 1982, Qatar started efforts to protect sea turtles early in the announcement of the project to protect hawksbill turtle in 2003.
The project aims to preserve the endangered hawksbill turtle in the northern coasts of Qatar, which includes Ras Laffan, Huwaila, Al-Jassassia, Al-Marwanah, Fuwair, Al-Ghariyah, Al-Mufeer as well as in the islands of Umm Tis, Rukn, Sheraa, Halul), and supervises a group of experts and specialists. In the Department of Protection and Wildlife of the Ministry of Municipal and Environment to carry out related studies in Fuwairit Beach in cooperation with a team from the Environmental Sciences Center at Qatar University, this includes transporting turtle nests to protect them from the impact of the high tide of the sea, monitoring the temperature of nests, and placing devices on some turtles with the aim of tracking the locations of Living in Qatar and neighboring countries, and taking DNA samples from turtles.
The works of the current season of the turtle protection project for the year 2020 are being conducted with the participation of a team of specialists and experts headed by Talib Khaled al Shahwani, director of the Department of Protection and Wildlife of the Ministry of Municipality and Environment.
