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stocks, diet, diseases, and behavior. 

 Strengthening these research fields is important. 

 Once this information is available, governments 

 should be able to respond with appropriate 

 management measures. 



The Organization of Eastern Caribbean States, 

 particularly its fisheries unit, has been 

 continuing the data base started by WATS. It 

 receives and distributes information, promotes 

 educational programs on a regional basis to 

 fisheirmen and schools, and is working to prepare a 

 comprehensive, harmonized fisheries ordinance 

 including effective management and conservation of 

 turtles. 



Greenpeace goals are conservation, education, and 

 protection of sea turtles at the grass roots 

 level. Involvement of volunteers in activities 

 such as beach patrols is fulfilling and 

 educational for all concerned. A small project in 

 French Guiana involves volunteers serving for 

 several months at their own expense. Other 

 activities designed to reverse habitat destruction 

 including man-induced beach erosion are meeting 

 with some success. 



WATS and WIDECAST are complementary in that WATS 

 is a scientific symposium designed to stimulate 

 the collection of necessary information while 

 WIDECAST provides a mechanism for effectively 

 putting the information into practice. WIDECAST 

 is working on the development of 39 sea turtle 

 management recommendations that will be directed, 

 through UNEP, to the western Atlantic national 

 governments. This involves 11 volunteers from 8 

 countries, 250 network participants, and a task 

 force in each of the 39 countries. Another 

 mechanism at work is the action plan for the 

 Caribbean Environment Program and the Cartagena 

 Convention. The first meeting of the parties to 

 the Cartagena Convention, meeting next week in 

 Guadeloupe, will direct its energies toward 

 developing a protocol on special protected areas 

 which is expected to have an annex focusing on 

 turtles. 



Conservation is fundamental and unbroken. The 

 conservation of sea turtles implies the 

 conservation of other species and their habitats, 

 and we are not alone. We should go forward with 

 the lUCN, private conservation groups, and other 



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