The community turtle monitors have dug up the last of the hatched nests from the season so I'm posting the results from that work.
142 potential nests marked
80 (56%) were true nests
62 (44%) were false nests or the nests were not located again (e.g. nest not marked precisely, markers lost during cyclones, etc.)
from those 80 true nests we had a total estimate of 10,950 eggs
10,089 (92%) of those eggs successfully hatched
861 (8%) did not survive
A pretty good start to the project.
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