In the Bahamas, loggerhead nesting occurs on Great Inagua, 

 Little Inagua, Andros, Abaco (Bacon 1981), Walker's Cay, Grand 

 Bahama, Bimini and Eleuthera (Carr et al. 1982). While 

 quantitative data are apparently lacking, Carr et al. (1982) 

 concluded that the number of nesting loggerheads, and other 

 species, has decreased greatly in the past 50 years, especially 

 in the northern islands. 



The level of loggerhead nesting activity in the Dominican 

 Republic is considered to be moderate, in the WATS I summary. 

 Bacon (1981) and Carr et al. (1982) reported "occasional" nesting 

 on the northeast and northwest coasts and the Representative to 

 WATS II from the Dominican Republic said that there are only 

 about 50 nests per year. Information upon which to determine a 

 trend is non-existent, but Carr et al. (1982) noted that "when 

 nesting turtles are encountered, they are regularly killed and 

 their eggs taken." 



Bacon (1981) regarded nesting by loggerheads in Jamaica as 

 rare and Carr et al. (1982) said only that it was even more 

 sparse than hawksbill nesting, which occurs only a few times each 

 year. The 210 nesting females given in the WATS I National 

 Report is valuable new information but does not allow for any 

 assessment of stability, and has apparently not been confirmed 

 recently. 



A similar situation prevails for Grenada, where loggerhead 

 nesting was formerly thought to be rare (Bacon 1981) or non- 

 existent (Carr et al. 1982), but the WATS National Report reveals 

 that about 100 females nest there each year. Further research is 

 needed to determine any trend that may be developing. 



The current status of the loggerhead in Colombia is 

 difficult to decipher. Bacon (1981) considered it to be a common 

 nester there, particularly on the beaches from Cabo San Augustin 

 to Rio Buritaca and on the Islas del Rosario. Carr et al. (1982) 

 found, however, that loggerheads nest there ("on the good 

 beaches... on the mainland between Cartagena and Santa Marta") 

 only occasionally. Data in the National Report for WATS I were, 

 I believe, derived from Kaufmann's reports (1968, 1971a, 1975) 

 and indicate about two loggerhead nests per night and 300 nests 

 per season on a 7.5 km stretch of beach at Rio Buritaca. These 

 numbers are probably obsolete because, as Kaufmann (1975) 

 reported, the number of nesting loggerheads decreased markedly 

 during the 20 year period prior to 1975 due to excessive 

 exploitation. An aerial survey carried out in that area just 

 prior to WATS I (June, 1983) produced no definite evidence of 

 loggerhead nesting, and L. Ogren (pers. comm.) believed at that 

 time that little, if any, nesting occurred on the northern 

 Colombian coast. In the National Report given at WATS II, only 



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