Recently, there is a report that the most endangered species is turtle due to the continuous poaching for medicine and a large-scale contamination. Therefore, many project and research have been conducted to save the turtles across the world. Fortunately I also had an opportunity to belong to the turtle research when I studied in Sydney in Australia. Since that time, my interest in turtle has been continued and I found good news for turtle project in Brazil.

Tamar Project is a Brazilian non-profit organization which aims at protecting the sea turtles from extinction in Brazil. This organization celebrates the result of their latest statistics. Over the past five years, the population of the five species of sea turtles increased by 86.7%.

Furthermore, the Tamar Project has covered new beaches and more areas for last 15 years. They have made effort to develop techniques to save turtles and increase the number of birth of turtles, which bring them the great achievement this year.

The number of offspring and females spawning has been doubled in the last five years. It has been observed that turtle?s offspring born during these years had been adults and began to active. The latest statistics has proved that biology proliferation has started.

Furthermore, there is a positive sign that turtle species have been recovery in Brazil. After turtle left from the ICU (intensive care unit), dead turtles were still not found yet. At the end of the 1980s, there was a downward trend in terms of population but in the last five years, it turned to upward trend fortunately. People hope that there is no more extinction.

However, still there is possibility for female turtles in Brazil to run into danger. Therefore they extends Tamar Project to the states of Sergipe, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, Ceara, Holy Spirit, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo and Santa Catarina and anticipates that it will take at least more than 35 years to care the entire risk of extinction.

While researching turtles in Australia, I realized that collecting turtles, blood-gathering and analyzing were time-consume and difficult to have right condition for research. I hope this project is successful and wait next result for next five years.