EUROTURTLE CONTINUES TO GROW

Europe’s first educational website for the conservation and biology of sea turtles, is celebrating with the news of more than 150,700 (2003 – 134,000) visits, an average of 412 (2003 – 369) per day, and over 2,399,000 (2003 – 1,370,000) hits on the website during 2004.

The site is an ongoing joint project between MEDASSET – The Mediterranean Association to Save the Sea Turtles, Exeter University and King’s College (Taunton), UK.

The content is regularly updated, and the site has received a number of awards. It has been recommended and selected by several international educational institutions, and in 1999 the European Union sponsored SchoolNet website voted it one of the top six environmental educational websites in Europe.

The website makes an important contribution towards the understanding of sea turtles and their survival, and provides a valuable environmental education tool for the classroom. Researchers can become familiar with these strange and enigmatic creatures that have survived through the age of the dinosaurs.

We look forward to an even more successful 2005!