The Arabian Peninsula and surrounding countries host a large number of nesting and foraging turtles. Most countries in the region host populations of two or three sea turtle species. Perhaps the best known nesting area in the region is Masirah Island, in the Sultanate of Oman, where hawksbills, olive ridleys and green turtles, in addition to the >30,000 loggerhead turtles, come to nest each summer. In conjunction with the Ministry of Environment of Oman, TOTAL Foundation and TOTAL S.A. - Muscat Branch have been working for four years on a sea turtle conservation project on Masirah Island. The Foundation recently sponsored a second sea turtle conservation project in Kuwait, with the aim of studying and protecting green and hawksbill turtle populations on the atolls of Qaru, Kubbar and Umm Al-Maradim. In cooperation with public and private authorities in the French Antilles, TOTAL Foundation co-sponsors another conservation project in Guadeloupe, coordinated by the NGO Kap-Natirel.