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<\/a>\nthis activity was held in Ecuador, IFOP attended represented by Dr. Patricia Z\u00e1rate in her capacity as a member of the Technical Scientific Committee of sea turtles of Southeast Pacific of South Pacific Permanent Commission (CPPS)<\/strong><\/p>\n
These activities will bring together technical scientific committees delegates from Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile.<\/strong><\/p>\n Regional Workshop “Marking of Sea Turtles in the Southeast Pacific<\/strong>” was held on October 3rd and 4th, at Pachoche Coastal Marine Wildlife Refuge, in Manab\u00ed Province Ecuador.<\/p>\n Dr. Z\u00e1rate explains that the workshop\u2019s objective is to have a standardized marking methodology for the region. The marking itself consists of placing an identification mark, which can be external, such as a metallic mark, or an internal one, such as a microchip, of the same type that is placed on pets. Currently, not all the projects that are being carried out do the marking in the same way, as an example, there are those who install the external marks on the front fins and others on the rear ones, which implies that on some occasions it could be thought that a turtle is unmarked if only the front flippers are checked, and the same can happen with a microchip placed in a different location. In addition to the work that we will do to review each country used techniques and to determine methodology standard, we will have the opportunity to visit San Lorenzo nesting beach where we will put this methodology into practice on its sea turtles population which are nesting there, thus being able to determinate its possible problems or effects. It is extremely important, mentions Dr. Z\u00e1rate, to have same tagging methodology in the region, considering that we want to evaluate the population trends of each species of sea turtle and their connectivity.<\/p>\n