Satellite Telemetry - Tracking NOW

Currently there are 4 sea turtles migrating through Belize waters that you can track daily!  One turtle forages off the coast of Honduras/Nicaragua and three within Belize.   Tracking sea turtles would make a great school project, and seaturtle.org has a webpage specifically for teachers so they can introduce sea turtle migration into the classroom.  Special thanks to SEATURTLE.ORG for making it possible to easily track sea turtles!

Click on the name of the turtle to  be redirected to the link at seaturtle.org

The turtles below are tagged with satellite transmitters donated by​
HAWKSBILL HOPE/MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY
in collaboration with the Belize Fisheries Department, 
​GALES POINT WILDLIFE SANCTUARY & ECOMAR

GALES POINT WILDLIFE SANCTUARY

The sandy shores along mainland Belize at Gales Point has been identified as Belize's most important hawksbill nesting beach.  In one year there can be more than 100 nests.  

2017 - Milky Way Hope for GPWS

Milky Way Hope for GPWS, a nesting hawksbill found at Gales Point, Belize was tagged on June 22, 2017 in Marymount University's & Hawksbill Hope's satellite tagging program. ​Milky Way was located by Mark Rimkus, Lauren Andryshak, and Philip Bui on a nightly turtle walk. She was nesting, after completion of nesting, she was fitted with a SPOT 6 satellite tag and released.

2017 - Yertle the Turtle Hope for GPWS

Yertle the Turtle of Hope for GPWS, a nesting hawksbill found at Gales Point, Belize was tagged on July 13, 2017 in Marymount University's & Hawksbill Hope's satellite tagging program. Yertle the Turtle wanted to see all she could see so she stacked up on us while we were tagging another turtle.​

2017 - Sea Grape Hope for GPWS

​Sea Grape Hope for GPWS, a nesting hawksbill found at Gales Point, Belize was tagged on July 13, 2017 in Marymount University's & Hawksbill Hope's satellite tagging program.

Sea Grape is the first turtle tagged from Gales Point that has foraged around the Colson Point area.    Will be interesting to see if Sea Grape continues to forage in this area.

GALLOW'S POINT

In collaboration with the Belize Fisheries Department, Marymount University and Hawksbill Hope, ECOMAR has tagged two loggerhead sea turtles that forage inside the 5 mile Gallow's Point Reef.

2017 - Hope 4 Nature

Hope 4 Nature is a female loggerhead sea turtle that was captured and tagged when a group from SEE Turtles and Nature's Path were supporting our research at St George's Caye.   

​Hope 4 Nature is the second loggerhead sea turtle tagged in a study to learn more about migration paths of sea turtles foraging on discarded lobster and conch products left by local sailboard fishermen.  The collaborative study is being conducted by ECOMAR, Marymount University, Hawksbill Hope and the Belize Fisheries Department.  Check back daily for updates on Hope 4 Nature!

Please note the point way down in Honduras is not good and will be removed from the data set.