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A B Palmeirinhas C
N Cuanza N N
GCLME Sangano Farol de
6° Cabinda Cabo Ledo S. Marta
1 2
Manono

Congo River Longa
AF Praia dos Pobres Cabo das três pontas
9° A 1 Soyo Palanca Baia des
Pipas
Cabeça da Baleia Namibe
2 Flamingos
BCLME Quicombo 2 Tombwa

12° ABF Ponta Albina

B 2 Xing River Egipto Praia 3
Musserra
Kissembo
Ambriz Hanha
2 Baia dos Tigres
15° Onzo Caxiva
Dande Cunene river
Chamume
Cuio 3
C
0 30km Buraco Luanda 0 30km 0 30km

Figure 1. Map of the Angolan coastline and the edge of the continental shelf illustrating (left panel) the Guinea Current Large Marine
Ecosystem (GCLME) and Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem (BCLME), which also extends across panel C. Panels A–C show
1. South ecoregion of Gulf of Guinea; 2. Angolan ecoregion; 3. Namibe ecoregion, AF = Angola Front and ABF = Angola Benguela Front.
Regularly monitored turtle nesting beaches (stars), locations surveyed during ground surveys (black triangles) and extents of aerial survey
transects (black dashed line), ground survey transects (black dotted line) and the overlap of aerial and ground surveys (continuous black
line) are also shown and the names of important nesting beaches are given

Quicombo (11.2910 S) (Carr and Carr 1991), Cuio (12.9400
S), Farol de Santa Marta (13.8840 S), Bentiaba (14.1754 S),
Baía das Pipas (14.9179 S), Tombwa (15.7836 S) (Morais
2013, 2015, 2016, 2019) and Baía dos Tigres (16.6049 S)
(Monard 1937). At most of these places the occurrence of
Green Turtles was irregular, with nesting along the shore
being patchy in comparison to that of the other turtle spe-
cies that breed in Angola (Figure 2). However, there is
strong evidence based on observations, strandings and
incidental captures in fishing nets that juvenile Green
Turtles occur along almost the entire coast, which is
not the case for Olive Ridley and Leatherback turtles
(Morais 2015, 2017). Hundreds of Green Turtles may be
seen at sea along beaches at the mouth of the Congo
River (6.0796 S), in Mussulo Bay (8.9137 S) and at the
mouth of the Cunene River (17.2414 S) in November and A Green Turtle nesting in the Cuio region (photo Sofia Costa,
December with evident feeding behaviour (Afonso 1987, Projecto Kitabanga)
Carr and Carr 1991, Elwen and Rod 2015, Morais 2015,
2019, Figures 1 and 2). Hughes et al. 1973, Brongersma 1982, Carr and Carr
1991, Morais 2011). It can be observed off the coast mainly
Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta) in the north zone and the waters of Angola are potential
foraging habitat for this migratory species (Weir et al. 2007).
The Loggerhead Turtle, according to some authors, had no A single nesting record was made in the Palmeirinhas
more than a sporadic presence in Angola (Bocage 1895, region (9.0857 S) (Morais 2011, 2016, Figure 2).

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