Luanda – Angolan president João Lourenço visits Saturday the Kitabanga Project located in central Cuanza Sul province, which studies, conserves, controls and protects sea turtles in the country and monitors hatching of the nest and performs DNA studies.
President João Lourenço who is accompanied by the First Lady , Ana Dias Lourenço, learnt more about the project on the site.
The presidential couple also visited the sea turtle nesting area at the mouth of the Longa River, where hundreds of turtles have been transferred to the sea and visited an environmental education area and a workshop where women artisans work.
Started in 2003, Kitabanga is a sea turtle study and conservation project implemented by the biology department of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Agostinho Neto University.
The project has the partnership of the Kissama Foundation and the University of Namibe and operates under the umbrella of the Ministry of Environment.
It monitors 150 kilometres of coastline in the provinces of Bengo, Zaire, Benguela, Namibe and Cuanza Sul. VC/VIC/MRA/AMP
