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UPDATE 30.08.07: Malini laid her last nest at Rekawa on 02.07.08 and then migrated to Mannar Island. She stayed there until at least 20.08.07 when we received her last transmission. Malini has probably damaged her tag (e.g. roosting under a coral head), so we may not hear from her again.
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Malini was the fourth turtle to be satellite tagged in 2007 and the tenth turtle to be satellite tagged in Sri Lanka. We do not know how many clutches of eggs she had laid during the 2007 season before she was tagged. She is part of the Saving Planet Earth Green Turtle Race and was named after a very attractive and famous Sri Lankan movie star. Malini nested very close to the TCP beach hut and to keep her out of the rain during tagging, we walked her into the hut after she had nested, where several people carefully cleaned and pampered her in front of an audience of visiting UN volunteers and Department of Wildlife Conservation officers. She was quite calm throughout the tagging, and made her way back to sea very slowly after tagging. Her tag was funded by the University of Exeter.
Malini's tag attachment team, including staff, officers, and volunteers from the MCS, TCP and the Department of Wildlife Conservation (DWC), joined by visiting officers from the Colombo UN office.
