90 Coral-islets as cooler nesting habitat and management priority to mitigate sea turtle population feminization. Hugo Bourgogne1,2 *, Tyffen C. Read3, Solène Derville1, Dominique Lafage4, Maxime Barbier4, Marion Bardet4 & Marc Oremus2 1 UMR 250 ENTROPIE (IRD, CNRS, Ifremer, Université de la Réunion, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie), Nouméa, New Caledonia 2 WWF-France bureau Nouvelle-Calédonie, World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), Nouméa, New Caledonia, France 3 Direction du Développement Durable des Territoires, Service PPAT, province Sud, Nouméa, New Caledonia, France 4 Bwärä Tortues Marines, Bourail, New Caledonia, France Acknowledgments We would like to address our gratitude to all the contributors and partners who have participated in this collaborative work. We thank the South Province of New Caledonia for their contribution by providing technical support and administrative authorizations to access and monitor all nesting zones. We thank the members and volunteers of the conservation group Bwärä Tortues Marines, Aquarium des Lagons and WWF-France for their valuable contribution to fieldwork. We thank our colleague Eric Vidal from the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD) in Nouméa for his open-minded revision of this work and valuable contribution for its improvement. We thank Morgan Mangeas and Claude Payri from the IRD in Nouméa for their guidance over the study period. Finally, we would like to extend our gratitude to all the traditional authorities in which geographies this study has taken place.
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