About SWOT

Founded in 2003, The State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT) program is led by Oceanic Society, a U.S. non-profit organization, in collaboration with a growing international network of institutions and individuals. This powerful group—the SWOT Team—works to compile and publish global sea turtle data that support conservation and management efforts at the international, national, and local scales. Those data reside within the SWOT database, which is maintained and managed in partnership with Duke University's OBIS-SEAMAP. This publicly-available database is regularly updated and is widely used by researchers, conservationists, students and teachers, funding agencies, and government officials.

Each year we publish a new volume of The State of the World’s Sea Turtles (SWOT) Report, an award-winning magazine designed to channel the SWOT Team's collective power by highlighting its success stories, innovations, and new findings. SWOT Report is distributed back to the SWOT Team members who helped create it, free of charge, for use in their own local outreach campaigns in communities where sea turtles occur. For more information visit the links below.