50 Innovative monitoring scheme adapted to remote, scattered nesting aggregation reveals a major loggerhead turtle rookery in New Caledonia, South Pacific Hugo Bourgogne1,2*, Marc Oremus2, Morgan Mangeas1, Eric Vidal1, Marc Girondot3 1 UMR 250 ENTROPIE, Centre IRD de Nouméa, IRD, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de la Réunion, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France 2 WWF-France bureau Nouvelle-Calédonie, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nouméa, New Caledonia, France 3 Laboratoire Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, Université Paris-Saclay, AgroParisTech, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Gif-sur-Yvette, France DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299748 Acknowledgements We would like to thank the South Province of New Caledonia for their substantial contribution to the study, by providing precious technical and fieldwork support and administrative authorizations to seasonally visit restricted-access sites in the ‘Grand Lagon Sud’ area. We extend our gratitude to all WWF-France volunteers, the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) and the Coastal Observatory of Geological Services of New Caledonia (OBLIC) members who contributed to field missions. Finally, we would like to thank all the local tribes in which geographies this study has taken place. All implemented protocols were approved by the relevant ethics and legal committee of the Environmental Department of the South province (DDDT), the local legal authority regarding endangered species, under permits #3553-2016/ARR/DENV, 3385-2017/ARR/DENV, 4276- 2018/ARR/DENV, 28372019/ARR/DENV and 3245-2020/ARR/DDDT. This study implied no human experimentations; therefore, no informed consent was required.
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