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How Cayman Turtle Recovered Its Population With the Help of Technologies

The population of the endangered Cayman green sea turtle has grown on a record scale over the last 20 years, thanks to the volunteers empowered with a mobile application built by a software company, LITSLINK

GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands - February 13, 2020 - (Newswire.com)

Historically, the Cayman Islands were always densely populated by turtles. The nesting population, counted at millions, made it one of the biggest in the Atlantic. 

However, over the years, the nesting populations were declining, which led this species to be listed as Endangered in 1975 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. And in the 1980s, the green sea turtle breeding population of the Cayman Islands was recognized to be on the verge of extinction, with only several animals reported in the waters surrounding the Islands.

The Cayman Islands Government took many efforts to recover the population of the sea reptiles. With this mission in mind, they reached out to LITSLINK, a top-notch software development company, with a request to build a user-friendly application that would enable volunteers to track turtle nests, monitor their activity and protect the newly hatched turtles from predators on their way from the nest to the sea. 

The newly built application “TurtleNest” enables volunteers to provide colleagues with the geolocation of a nest, the number of eggs, a written description and a picture of the environment. This helps their colleagues to find the nest’s place during further checks and also to prevent tourists and local people from damaging turtles’ nests accidentally.

Furthermore, 45 days after the eggs are discovered and ready to be hatched, users get a notification on their devices and come to the place to help little turtles get into the water safely.

Equipped with a top-notch mobile application, volunteers do a lot of night work, which hasn’t been practiced before. They also make statistics on the number of nests, track hatched eggs and estimate the population of turtles on all three islands.

Thus, the dedicated people armed with a smart software solution caused a real “boom” in the Cayman Islands. The local Department of Environment reported that 2019 had become a record year with the biggest number of turtle nests over the last 20 years.




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