(MENAFN- The Peninsula)
The Peninsula
Doha, Qatar: The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MoECC) yesterday organised a campaign to release baby hawksbill turtles, which are threatened with extinction, at Fuwairit Beach.
Minister of Environment and Climate Change H E Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie attended the event.
The campaign aimed to raise environmental awareness among school students and the Qatari community, about the importance of preserving biodiversity in the local environment, and educating the new generation about the importance of preserving turtles from the risk of extinction.
A number of school students participated in the campaign, including: the Children's Literature Center, Al Khor Model School, and students from Qatar Foundation schools.
The MoECC efforts helped increase in the number of turtles during the breeding season, and specialised teams shifted more than 125 nests to Fuwairit Beach during the last two weeks of this nesting season.
The campaign witnessed the honouring of the Minister of Environment and Climate Change to a number of Ministry employees, volunteers, and residents of the areas adjacent to the nesting sites, who contributed to preserving the lives of turtles, by communicating with specialised teams to report nesting operations outside the designated areas.
In this context, Director of the Wildlife Development Department Mohammed Al Khanji said that the 2024 sea turtle nesting season was characterized this year by an increase in the numbers of nesting and breeding, which reached the neighboring areas, where specialized teams shifted these nests to Fuwairit Beach, which has been designated for turtle nesting since 2020.
He noted the increase in nesting operations during the recent weeks after the end of the winter camping season and the removal of marine camps from the northeastern shores of the country. Al Khanji said that members of the project team work in shifts covering all the mentioned sites in cooperation with the Qatar University team.
He praised the keenness of the people living in the neighboring areas to protect the lives of turtles, and their communication with the Ministry to shift them to the places designated for them.
Al Khanji noted the increasing awareness among segments of Qatari society, and the success of the environmental awareness plans undertaken by the Ministry in achieving its goals, which supports the protection and preservation of biodiversity in Qatar, especially with regard to protecting endangered species, the most important of which is the hawksbill sea turtle.
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