• To study the biological, ecological characteristics of breeding sea turtle populations in Vietnam
• To assess the impact of climate change (including global warming, sea level rise and storm) to the breeding populations of sea turtles in Con Dao National Park (Ba Ria - Vung Tau) and Nui Chua National Park (Ninh Thuan)
• To propose solutions to manage, protect and reserve the sea turtle populations in climate change

• Scientific results:
- Data set on status of sea turtles in Vietnam
- Data set on the biological and ecological characteristics of sea turtle breeding populations
- Microclimate model and DEM model to assess the impacts of global warming, sea level rise and storms basing on climate change scenarios. The prediction data on impacts of climate change to sea turtle breeding populations in Vietnam
- The solutions to manage and protect sea turtles in climate change
• Applied results:
Findings of the research has provided the scientific basis for the management and protection of sea turtles in their nesting areas, particularly in the areas of Con Dao National Park and Nui Chua National Park. The micro climate and DEM models predictions in temperature and sea level rise will help the management boards can perform better in sea turtle conservation in the future.

Project was successful assess the current status of sea turtles in Vietnam and the threats to these populations, especially in areas where the number of sea turtles are relatively abundant. The biological and ecological characteristics of sea turtles have been described and evaluated in detail. This is one of the first studies on the reproductive biology of sea turtles in Vietnam
Micro climate and DEM models are applied for the first time in the study of sand temperature fluctuations and sea level rise in Vietnam. It is also one of very few studies in the world applied these models in sea turtle research.

- Publications:
1. Chu Thế Cường, 2004. Marine turtle conservation in Vietnam. Journal of Environment, No 7/2014. pages 52 – 54
2. Chu Thế Cường, 2004. The reproductive characteristics of Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Con Dao, Viet Nam. Journal of Marine Science and Technology, Vol 14, issue 3A; 2014: 274 – 280
3. Nguyen Duc The, Chu The Cuong, 2013. Challenges for Marine Turtle Conservation in Vietnam. Proceedings of the National Symposium on Improving the Potential Withstanding to Climate change. The Natural Science and Technology publishing house, Hanoi, pp 207-217. ISBN: 8-935048-931677.
4. Nguyen Duc The, Chu The Cuong, 2013. Some biological indicators of Green turtle (Chelonia mydas) in Con Dao island. Proceedings of the 5th National Symposium on Ecology and Biological Resources, Hanoi 20 – 22 March The Natural Science and Technology publishing house, Hanoi. pp. 1600-1607. ISBN: 978-604-60-07302.
5. Chu The Cuong, Nguyen Duc The, 2014. Sea turtles in Vietnam: on the edge of extinction. Journal of Life Sciences, ISSN 1934-7391, USA. (Accepted)
- Patents: none
- Technological products: CD-ROM; Final report and thematic reports; 05 articles
- Other outputs:
1. Poster report: Chu The Cuong, Nguyen Duc The, 2013. Predict the impact of global warming on sea turtle populations in Vietnam. Presented in the 33 International Symposium of Sea turtle Biology and Conservation on Ferbrary2013 at Baltimore, USA.
2. Oral report: Chu The Cuong, 2014. The status of and illegal trade in marine turtles and the eforts being undertake to combat this in Vietnam. Presented in the workshop on Marine turtle trade in the Coral Triangle, June 2014, Manila, Philippine.
3. Book: Chu Thế Cường, Bùi Thị Thu Hiền, 2015. 101 câu hỏi và trả lời về Rùa biển (101 questions and answers). Published by IUCN (in printing).
4. Manuscript: Martin Dahl, Cuong The Chu, Lan Dinh Tran and Michael Tedengren. Monthly tide variations determine loss of green turtle nesting area from sea level rise. Submitted to SCI journal: Endangered Species Research (ISSN: 16134796) and received 05 reviews, we are still working on that manuscript and expect to publish it in 2015.

Con Dao National Park, Nui Chua National Park, Cu Lao Cham Marine Protected Area, Phu Quy Marine Protected Area, Phu Quoc Marine Protected Area

Due to the limitation on time and financial support, studies on calculating the pivotal temperature of Green turtle population, assessing the impact of wave surges on nesting beaches etc, can not be conducted. Therefore, we expected that the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology will continue support us in the future.