Tanzania supports small populations of nesting green and hawksbill turtles. Community Conservation Officers have received extensive training in sea turtle conservation methods and focus their efforts on the conservation of important nesting sites. Each Conservation Officer undertakes a daily foot patrol of their local beach to look for evidence of sea turtle nesting activity. Deep ‘tractor style’ tracks in the sand are a sure sign that a female turtle has come ashore the previous night. Each nest is checked to confirm it contains eggs and is allocated an individual identification number. 

If the nest is at risk from predators or tidal inundation the Conservation Officer carefully relocates it to a safer area using internationally approved protocols. Each nest is monitored during the two month incubation period and following hatching, the Conservation Officer calculates hatching success by excavating the nest to count the number of hatched eggs, rotten eggs and failed embryos. Data from all monitored nesting sites are stored in a central database at the Sea Sense HQ and are used to assess trends in nesting activity.