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The Ulithi Marine Turtle Project, on Gielop Island, Ulithi Atoll, Yap State, Micronesia, allowing a visiting Oceanic Society ecotourism group to release some green turtle hatchlings. The release was done right at sunset. You will notice that the hatchlings were released at the top of the beach so that they could orient themselves to the water and to allow this release to be as "normal" as possible. Ulithi Atoll islands support one of the most important Green Turtle nesting populations in the region. The local community on Falalop is supporting the projects monitoring efforts. Most of the sea turtle tagging and monitoring workers are Ulithi residents. In 2007 a total of 250 nesting female turtles were tagged by this local research team over a period of 55 nights on the island.