A task force to promote activities to monitor, analyse and protect sea turtles in the Maldivian Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. This is the aim of an agreement signed by the University of Milan-Bicocca and by ABA - Animal Welfare Association, which will combine the veterinary expertise of the ABA association with the marine ecology expertise of the MaRHE Center, the Milan university’s outstanding research centre located in the Maldives, which is equipped with large equipment and state-of-the-art laboratories.
The task force will be led by Paolo Galli, Professor of Ecology at the university’s Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences and director of the MaRHE Centre, and veterinarian Giordano Nardini, President of the ABA Association and one of the world’s leading experts in caring for sea turtles.