Every year, ARCHELON’s Sea Turtle Rescue Centre cares for around 70 injured or ill sea turtles, many of which are affected by trauma resulting from boat collisions or other human activities. Triton, one of their recent patients, was found in 2023 on a Cycladic beach in the Aegean with significant head injuries. After extensive care and rehabilitation at the Sea Turtle Rescue Centre, Triton has now returned to the sea with a new mission: to help inform scientific understanding of sea turtle movements and habitat needs.

Triton is the first rehabilitated sea turtle in Greece to be tracked in real time via cutting-edge satellite telemetry. Telemetry gathers, transmits, and assesses data from distant sources through the use of sensors and various devices, enabling automatic data collection and analysis. ARCHELON’s researchers in the project are now looking forward to following Triton’s journey to better understand how rehabilitated sea turtles adapt behaviorally post-release, as well as to study migration patterns and habitat use.

Talay is a green sea turtle aged between 15-20 years old, who was rescued after having swallowed a fishing line and other plastics in the sea. 

We're tracking Talay to help provide a better understanding of the migration and feeding patterns of the under-researched juvenile green sea turtle.

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We track ‘Tuba’, a 25 year old turtle who was recently rescued from the sea after seriously injuring her shell. Once back to full health, she took to the waters of the Mediterranean and we follow her maritime journey. 

Over 8 million people from across the globe followed Tuba on her 20,600 kilometre journey. You can see Tuba’s journey on the map.

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As part of the TUI Turtle Aid programme to protect one million sea turtles worldwide, the TUI Care Foundation works with DEKAMER, a sea turtle research, rescue and rehabilitation centre in Turkey. We use satellite transmitters to learn about the migration routes of turtles and where they search for food.

Sea turtles cover extraordinary distances as they journey between their nesting and feeding grounds and migrate to warmer waters for the winter. Tracking their progress across the Mediterranean Sea with a GPS transmitter provides vital information about their feeding sites and migration routes which helps to safeguard their habitats.