Projeto Chelonia Mydas

Projeto Chelonia mydas monitors the pollutants' impact on Brazilian sea-turtles. Under the auspices of Instituto Marcus Daniel (IMD), the project studies the processes and the occurrence of sea-turtle's diseases in environments affected by men, with the aim of understanding the occurrence of diseases in the sea-turtle populations in Brazil. Projeto Chelonia mydas' activities involve studies on sea-turtle's ecology, ecotoxicology, epidemiology, pathology, hematology, plasma biochemistry, and immunology.