Worldwide Sea Turtle Conservation and Management Activities 



Rapporteur Report of the Ad Hoc Worldwide Sea 

 Turtle Conservation and Management Activities 

 Panel Session 



CHAIR ; Colin Limpus, Queensland National Parks and 

 Wildlife Service, Australia 



RAPPORTEURS : Roderic Mast, World Wildlife Fund, USA 



Herman Kumpf, National Marine Fisheries Service, 

 USA 



PANEL ; Alfredo Figueroa, Universidad de Michoacan, Mexico 



Rene Marquez, Institute Nacional de la Pesca, 

 Mexico 



Jeffrey Miller, Queensland National Parks and 

 Wildlife Service, Australia 



Jeanne Mortimer, University of Florida, USA 



Perran Ross, Caribbean Conservation Corporation, 

 USA 



Georgita Ruiz, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico 



Johan Schulz, Netherlands 



The chairman announced that he was pleased, as an outsider, 

 to be able to expand his horizons to the Caribbean. 



LIMPUS ; 



MARQUEZ ; 



The intention of this session is to give you some 

 idea of sea turtle activities that are taking 

 place outside the Caribbean, the species and the 

 issues. 



The leatherback is one of the most widely 

 distributed species; it travels the greatest 

 distance from its nesting zone. These animals are 

 very special; they maintain a temperature above 

 that of the sea. Scientific information on this 

 species is new. They are well known to Pacific 

 fishermen and have a different common name in each 

 region (tinglada, chalupa, etc.). 



Until recently we did not know all the nesting 

 areas. Their discovery is an interesting story. 

 Lots of eggs were seen in markets in Mexico City, 

 but their origin was unknown. After tailing one 



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