Turtle nesting
Exciting news!! this week we have another possible addition of turtle nests to our beach!! along with a few Loggerhead nests we have found a potential Green turtle nest a few hundred meters from our base!
Exciting news!! this week we have another possible addition of turtle nests to our beach!! along with a few Loggerhead nests we have found a potential Green turtle nest a few hundred meters from our base!
Today at GVI we had a rather unpleasant suprise! while I was out training two of our volunteers in the monitoring methedology, Jim, another staff member on the dive, saw six Pterois volitans, Lionfish, at one dive site (Lat: 20.01573, Lon: -87.27740). This is truely a testament to the rapid invasion of this species. Jim managed to spear all six and disected each.
Here are the genders, sizing and stomach contects of each:
Besides their mature size, what was also worrying was that the female had quite ripe ovaries.
Ben