Within the NETCET project, the WWF Italy is organizing a meeting with the Chioggia’s fishermen to provide basic information about biology and conservation of the Seat Turtles.

On the 26th of September 2013, the 1st NETCET Course on handling, recovering, releasing and recording accidentally caught/stranded cetaceans and sea turtles was successfully held in Koper (Slovenia).

Last 15th September Centro Studi Cetacei Onlus (Italian Association for the study of marine Mammals and Reptiles and technical adviser of City of Pescara for NetCet project) in collaboration with WWF Abruzzo and the Protected Marine Area “Torre del Cerrano” identified a nesting site of Loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) in Roseto degli Abruzzi (Teramo).

From the beginning of this year, the Cetacea Foundation released 26 Sea Turtles,