Canary Islands - OAG

Original provider:
Observatorio Ambiental Granadilla

Dataset credits:
Data provider
Observatorio Ambiental Granadilla
Originating data center
<a href='http://www.seaturtle.org/tracking/' target='_blank'>Satellite Tracking and Analysis Tool (STAT)</a>
Project partner
Observatorio Ambiental Granadilla (OAG).- Dr Antonio Machado<br><br>Sociedad de Estudio de Cetáceos en el Archipiélago Canario (SECAC).- Vidal Martín<br><br>Centro de Gestión de Biodiversidad (BIOGES) del Departamento de Biología de la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.- Dr Luis Pelipe López-Jurado<br><br>Centro de Recuperación de Fauna Silvestre del Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria (CRFS).- Pascual Calabuig
Project sponsor or sponsor description
Ministerio de Fomento

Abstract:
The waters around Canary Islands constitute a foraging ground for juvenile loggerheads from different Atlantic nesting populations.<br><br>The Granadilla Environmental Observatory (OAG, Observatorio Ambiental Granadilla) is developing a monitoring program of the loggerhead in order to gain additional information on the distributional patterns of the species provided by previous programs (i.e. Aegina). <br><br>The OAG is a Spanish State foundation recently created and based in Tenerife, Canary Islands, aiming to monitor environmental conditions of the sea and the state of biodiversity and marine protected areas in waters around the Canary Islands and, extensively, the archipelago of Madeira and the Azores (the Atlantic subregion called Macaronesia). One of its objectives is also the follow-up of the impacts of large marine-based infrastructures, such as large ports.