Indo-Pacific Sea Turtle Tracking
A research-grade tracking platform spanning the Coral Triangle — green, hawksbill, leatherback, olive ridley, loggerhead, flatback — with built-in governance for data sovereignty, species protection, and community-FPIC datasets.
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Six sea turtle species tracked across the Indo-Pacific. Click a track line to view individual animal details. Zoom and pan to explore the Coral Triangle region.
Open full map with species legend →Four protection modes
Each tracked animal is published under one of four governance modes — chosen by data-export rules, species-protection policy, and community consent.
Precise GPS
Full-resolution coordinates published openly — typical for non-sensitive species and reference datasets.
Species rule
Coordinates downgraded for species protected at a specific sensitive site (e.g. green turtles at Mirs Bay).
Site grid (0.1°)
Coordinates aggregated to a ≈11 km grid for compliance with cross-border data-export rules.
Community-governed
Datasets governed by community FPIC. Visibility limited to aggregated views unless conditional access is granted.
What makes this different
Existing tracking platforms publish data openly or not at all. This one publishes everything — at the granularity each dataset can legally and ethically support.
China-registered research infrastructure
Built and operated within Chinese jurisdiction, ensuring data sovereignty under PRC scientific data and personal information regulations. Partner institutions in mainland China can publish without cross-border data-export concerns.
Dual-layer protection by design
Automatic data-export downgrading (≈11 km grids for cross-border-sensitive coordinates) combined with species-specific protection rules (e.g. green turtles filtered at Mirs Bay sensitive site). Both layers compose per individual.
FPIC-grounded community governance
Community-owned datasets are governed by Free, Prior and Informed Consent. Reapply chains, conditional access, and withdrawal are first-class concepts — visibility decisions belong to the data subject, not the platform.
Partner institutions
Built in collaboration with field-research institutions and technology partners committed to responsible open-data practice.
Real-world green-turtle tracking data from Hainan and the broader South China Sea. Coordinates published as 0.1° grid summaries to comply with data-export regulations and CITES species-protection norms.
Builds and operates the platform infrastructure — data pipelines, governance tooling, and the public research interface.